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The narrative suggests another reason for the "legend." He wrote a manuscript spelling them out when he was 20, the night before he was killed in a duel. A Nor
by ojbyrne 18y ago
The narrative suggests another reason for the "legend."
He wrote a manuscript spelling them out when he was 20, the night before he was killed in a duel. A Norwegian mathematician and contemporary of Galois's named Niels H. Abel died of tuberculosis at age 26 after solving a 300-year-old problem and discovering what are now known as Abelian functions.
Life expectancy has increased dramatically in the last century, so results from before that would be skewed young.
- jacoblyles 18y agoWhy does the legend persist in mathematics more than other fields?
- zitterbewegung 18y agoMathematicians want to live fast and die young? There is another legend that there is no nobel prize in mathematics because Gosta Mittag-Leffler cheated on nobel's wife even though its probably not true. See http://almaz.com/nobel/why_no_math.html http://almaz.com/nobel/why_no_math.html