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Title: Niels Henrik Abel. En skildring af hans liv og
videnskabelige virksomhed ... Fo lgeskrift til "Nordisk tidskrift
fo r vetenskap, konst och industri, etc.."Publisher: British
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Bjerknes, Carl Anton; Abel, Niels Henrik; 1880. 129 p.; 8 .
10281.h.9.
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Few men in modern mathematics have had as great an impact as the
Norwegian Niels Henrik Abel (1802-29), whose discoveries paved the
way for several new branches of nineteenth-century mathematics.
Tragically, Abel's short life was dominated by poverty and his
scientific achievements were not fully recognised until after his
death. This work, written by Carl Anton Bjerknes (1825-1903), was
the first full biography of Abel. Originally published in 1880 and
translated into French in 1885, it became a valuable resource for
later Abel biographers and scholars of the history of mathematics.
With insight and understanding, Bjerknes charts the progress of the
talented young mathematician and gives a detailed account of Abel's
work and his correspondence with other contemporary mathematicians.
In particular, he examines in depth (from Abel's point of view) the
dispute between Abel and his rival Jacobi relating to their
discoveries of elliptic functions in the 1820s.
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