Fermat's Last Theorem

The first step in Niel Abel's 1824 proof on the insolvability of the general quintic equation is the statement that if a general solutio...

It is perhaps a bit surprising that a study of functions with multiple parameters led to the proof by Niels Abel that the quintic equation ...

Augustin-Louis Cauchy was born on August 21, 1789 in Paris. It was the time of the French Revolution . For a bit, Cauchy's father left...

In addition to this blog, I have started a series of "softer" mathematical essays on hubpages.com. You can see my first posting in...

Paolo Ruffini was born on September 22, 1765 in what is today Italy. In 1783, he entered the University of Modena where he studied geometry...

It was not enough for Carl Friedrich Gauss to prove the constructibility a heptadecagon (a seventeen sided polygon). He generalized the i...