Niels Henrik Abel

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Norwegian mathematician human mathematician

Niels Henrik Abel was a pioneering 19th-century Norwegian mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in algebra and analysis, including proving the insolvability of the general quintic equation by radicals.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Norwegian mathematician → human → mathematician →
birthDate	1802-08-05 →
birthPlace	Finnøy → Norway → Rogaland →
citizenship	Norway →
deathDate	1829-04-06 →
deathPlace	Aust-Agder → Froland → Norway →
educatedAt	Cathedral School in Christiania → Royal Frederick University →
era	19th century →
familyName	Abel →
fieldOfWork	algebra → mathematical analysis → mathematics →
gender	male →
givenName	Henrik → Niels →
hasCauseOfDeath	tuberculosis →
hasHonor	Abel Prize named in his honor → crater Abel on the Moon named after him → portrait on Norwegian banknotes → statue in Oslo →
influenced	Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi → Sofia Kovalevskaya → modern group theory → theory of elliptic functions → Évariste Galois →
knownFor	Abelian functions → Abelian groups → Abelian integrals → Abel–Ruffini theorem → contributions to elliptic functions → proof of insolvability of the general quintic by radicals →
memberOf	Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters →
nativeLanguage	Norwegian →
notableAward	Grand Prix of the French Academy of Sciences (posthumous recognition) →
notableWork	Mémoire sur une propriété générale d’une classe très étendue de fonctions transcendantes → Recherches sur les fonctions elliptiques →
spouse	Christine Kemp →
workLocation	Berlin → Christiania → Paris →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Abel Prize → Abelian group → Abel–Ruffini theorem →	namedAfter
Mémoire sur une propriété générale d’une classe très étendue de fonctions transcendantes → Recherches sur les fonctions elliptiques →	author
Finnøy → Froland →	hasNotablePerson
Abel Prize →	commemorates
Cathedral School in Christiania →	educated
Niels →	hasNotableBearer
University of Oslo →	hasNotableStaff
Sophus Lie →	influencedBy
Henrik →	isMiddleNameOf
Henrik →	isUsedBy
Cathedral School in Christiania →	notableAlumnus
Mémoire sur une propriété générale d’une classe très étendue de fonctions transcendantes →	notableWorkOf