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Niels Henrik Abel, the Norwegian genius, like Ramanujan, died very young but had made monumental contributions nonetheless. And like Ramanujan, Abel suffered from poverty and ill health but did not let this impede his great creativity. We describe Abel’s life making comparisons with Ramanujan’s and discuss certain aspects of Abel’s work, such as his treatment of divergent series and his work on elliptic functions that have relationship with some of Ramanujan’s discoveries.
This article appeared in The Hindu, India’s National Newspaper, in December 2004 for Ramanujan’s 117th birth anniversary.
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Alladi, K. (2013). Niels Henrik Abel: Norwegian Mathematical Genius. In: Ramanujan's Place in the World of Mathematics. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0767-2_13
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