From: Per Erik Manne <Per.Manne@nhh.no>
Subject: Re: Abel's Paper on the general Quintic
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:10:10 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.math

Ron Bloom wrote:

> Has anyone here read through the original work?
>
> I recently downloaded a paper of Hamilton's,  the purpose
> of which was to clarify and generalize the approach
> of Abel.
>
> Regards,


Abel published two versions of this paper. The first one
was published at his own expense in 1824 when he was
still completely unknown. In order to keep expenses down,
the presentation is very condensed. An expanded version
was published in Crelle's Journal in 1826.

A modern presentation of what Abel did can be found in
Michael Rosen's article in AMS Monthly, 1995, p.495-505.
For those of us who are lucky enough to read Norwegian,
there is also an article by Christian Skau in Normat, 1990,
p.53-84.
--
Bergen,
Per Manne