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Niels Henrik Abel

By Nils Voje Johansen

Niels Henrik Abel was born on the island of Finnøy, outside Stavanger, on 5 August 1802, the second son of the parish priest Søren Georg Abel and his wife Anne Marie Simonsen.

Two years later, Søren Georg Abel took over as the parish priest of Gjerstad, near Risør, after his father Hans Mathias Abel.

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  • In 1815, Niels Henrik enrolled at the Cathedral School in Christiania, as Oslo was called at the time. His incredible talent for mathematics was discovered in 1818, when a new mathematics teacher, Bernt Michael Holmboe, joined the school.

    Only recently qualified as a teacher, the young Holmboe introduced Abel to both classical and contemporary mathematics literature. Abel studied works by Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Carl Friedrich Gauss, as well as contemporary journals.

    Eventually, he started writing his own small works, and towards the end of his school career, he was working on a problem that had confounde