biography
pronunciation:
[ahbel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1802–29)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Finnøy, N Norway. He showed mathematical genius by the age of 15, and in 1823 proved that there was no algebraic formula for the solution of a general polynomial equation of the fifth degree. He developed the concept of elliptic functions independently of Carl Gustav Jacobi, and the theory of Abelian integrals and functions became a central theme of later 19th-c analysis. |
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