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Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (died 1829)

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Niels Henrik Abel

Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)

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 radicals. This question was one of the…
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August 5

Day of the year

August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 148 days remain until the end of the year.
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