How did niels henrik abel die

Niels Henrik Abel (), Norwegian mathematician, was born at Findoe on the 25th of August In he entered the cathedral school at Christiania (as Oslo was then called), and three years later he gave proof of his mathematical genius by his brilliant solutions of the original problems proposed by Bernt Holmboe.

About this time, his father, a poor Protestant minister, died, and the family was left in straitened circumstances; but a small pension from the state allowed Abel to enter Christiania University in His first notable work was a proof of the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals. (See Abel-Ruffini theorem.) This investigation was first published in and in abstruse and difficult form, and afterwards () more elaborately in the first volume of Crelle's Journal.

Niels henrik abel biography for kids pictures The Abel family originated in Schleswig and came to Norway in the 17th century. Bernt Michael Holmboe supported Niels Henrik Abel with a scholarship to remain at the school and raised money from his friends to enable him to study at the Royal Frederick University. Hans got better grades than Niels; however, a new mathematics teacher, Bernt Michael Holmboe , was appointed in To do this, he invented independently of Galois a branch of mathematics known as group theory , which is invaluable not only in many areas of mathematics, but for much of physics as well.

Further state aid enabled him to visit Germany and France in , and having visited the astronomer Heinrich Schumacher () at Hamburg, he spent six months in Berlin, where he became intimate with August Leopold Crelle, who was then about to publish his mathematical journal. This project was warmly encouraged by Abel, who contributed much to the success of the venture.

From Berlin he passed to Freiberg, and here he made his brilliant researches in the theory of functions, elliptic, hyperelliptic, and a new class known as Abelians being particularly studied. In he moved to Paris, and during a ten months' stay he met the leading mathematicians of France; but he was little appreciated, for his work was scarcely known, and his modesty restrained him from proclaiming his researches.

Pecuniary embarrassments, from which he had never been free, finally compelled him to abandon his tour, and on his return to Norway he taught for some time at Christiania. In Crelle obtained a post for him at Berlin, but the offer did not reach Norway until after his death near Arendal on the 6th of April.

The early death of this talented mathematician, of whom Legendre said "quelle tête celle du jeune Norvegien!", cut short a career of extraordinary brilliance and promise.

Niels henrik abel biography for kids Bernt Michael Holmboe supported Niels Henrik Abel with a scholarship to remain at the school and raised money from his friends to enable him to study at the Royal Frederick University. After his return, he dedicated his time to improving on his solutions for quintic equations. His works, the greater part of which originally appeared in Crelle's Journal , were edited by Bernt Michael Holmboe and published in by the Norwegian government, and a more complete edition by Ludwig Sylow and Sophus Lie was published in He continued to send most of his work to Crelle's Journal.

Under Abel's guidance, the prevailing obscurities of analysis began to be cleared, new fields were entered upon and the study of functions so advanced as to provide mathematicians with numerous ramifications along which progress could be made. His works, the greater part of which originally appeared in Crelle's Journal, were edited by Holmboe and published in by the Swedish government, and a more complete edition by Ludwig Sylow[?] and Sophus Lie was published in The adjective "abelian", derived from his name, has become so commonplace in mathematical writing that it is conventionally spelled with a lower-case initial "a".

(See abelian group and abelian category; also abelian variety.)

The Abel Prize is named after him.