The year is 1801, and the country of Norway was stuck in the middle of the Napoleonic wars. The country of Denmark was adamant to remain neutral, and consequently signed a peace treaty with the Danish. The British took this as an act of war and began to attack Denmark, and therefore Denmark joined an Alliance against Britain. Due to the war happening around Neils Henrik Abel was then forced to grow up during an economic crisis.
Abel's talent for mathematics and physics weren't immediately recognized due to a new university, namely, the University of Christiana being established in the town where Abel and his brother were studying, which had recruited a lot of the best teachers at his secondary school, Cathedral School which had left them short on teachers, many of whom were not specialized to teach those areas. However, one particular teacher named Bernt Holmboe joined the teaching staff who recognized Abel's potential. After studying under Holombe, it is reported that Abel began studying mathematics at the university level on his own, with the push of Holmboe and began exploring the work of Euler, and Newton. After igniting a passion in his interests, Holmboe recommended he begin reading works from Lagrange and Laplace.
Ten years later, Abel entered the University of Christiana with the help of Holmboe who had helped Abel secure a scholarship to attend the institution. During his last year, he submitted his first research paper which offered a solution to quintic equations by radicals, which actually contained an error he discovered by himself when one of the peer reviewers for the Royal Society of Copenhagen asked for an actual numerical example.
Abel's talent for mathematics and physics weren't immediately recognized due to a new university, namely, the University of Christiana being established in the town where Abel and his brother were studying, which had recruited a lot of the best teachers at his secondary school, Cathedral School which had left them short on teachers, many of whom were not specialized to teach those areas. However, one particular teacher named Bernt Holmboe joined the teaching staff who recognized Abel's potential. After studying under Holombe, it is reported that Abel began studying mathematics at the university level on his own, with the push of Holmboe and began exploring the work of Euler, and Newton. After igniting a passion in his interests, Holmboe recommended he begin reading works from Lagrange and Laplace.
Ten years later, Abel entered the University of Christiana with the help of Holmboe who had helped Abel secure a scholarship to attend the institution. During his last year, he submitted his first research paper which offered a solution to quintic equations by radicals, which actually contained an error he discovered by himself when one of the peer reviewers for the Royal Society of Copenhagen asked for an actual numerical example.
Works Cited
“Abel, Niels Henrik (1802-1829) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.” Scienceworld.wolfram.com, scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Abel.html.
“Abel Theorem.” Abel Theorem - Encyclopedia of Mathematics, www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Abel_theorem.
"Denmark was adamant to remain neutral, and consequently signed a peace treaty with the Danish." They signed a treaty with themselves? Or with Norway?
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