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  1. Abel, Niels Henrik 1802-1829.
  2. Norwegian mathematician. He demonstrated that
  3. the general quintic equation
  4. ax^5 + bx^4 + cx^3 + dx^2 + ex + f = 0 could
  5. not be solved algebraically. Subsequent work
  6. covered elliptic functions, integral
  7. equations, infinite series, and the binomial
  8. theorem. He lived a life of poverty and ill
  9. health, dying of tuberculosis shortly before
  10. the arrival of an offer of a postion at the
  11. University of Berlin.
  12.  
  13. Subject by: Russell Webb
  14.