Niels Henrik Abel
Norwegian mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in... Wikipedia
Born: August 5, 1802, Nedstrand, Norway
Died: April 6, 1829 (age 26 years), Froland Municipality, Norway
Education: Oslo Cathedral High School and University of Oslo
Parents: Søren Georg Abel and Anne Marie Simonsen
Fields: Mathematics