Niels Abel
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
BIO
- Born August 5, 1802 in Findoe, Norway
- Born into a large family with 6 brothers
- His father died when he was 18
- 8 years later he died of tuberculosis
LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS
- Even though he died young he still made a big impact
- For example at age 16 he proved Binomial theorem for all valid numbers
- Extending Eulers result which only worked with rational numbers
- At 19 he showed that there is no general algebraic solution to
- Quintic equations or any general equations higher than 4
LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS
- To prove quintic equations he invented a new
- Branch of math called group theory
- Which is very important in math and physics
- He was offered to be a professor in Berlin
- But sadly died before he got the letter
RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND
- His father was a very important politician in Norway
- And he was supposed to minister at Gjerstad
- But it seems that he did not share his fathers views
- And even though his teachers were from the church
- Not much is said about his religion
THE EFFECTS OF HIS RELIGION
- I think that most of his achievements
- We're not directly influenced by religion
- But his teacher Bernt Holmboe taught him at the Christiana Catholic School
- Because Holmboe he began to study at a higher levels of Mathamatics
- Resulting in his studies in elliptic functions
AUGUSTUS CRELLE
- He was a civil engineer and self taught Mathmatition
- He was a mentor for Abel and was the one to invite him to Berlin University
- He wrote "Journal for pure and applied mathamatics" also known as Crelles Journal
- Crelle also elaborated on Abel's work on Quintic equations
- Other things like equation theory, calculus, and theoretical equations were in his journal
