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| Jun 7, 2010 at 4:49 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | If true, Stubhaug's "Niels Henrik Abel and his Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar" must have it. | |
| Feb 6, 2010 at 22:06 | comment | added | John Stillwell | According to Bell, Legendre and Cauchy were asked to referee Abel's manuscript (on Abel's theorem) in 1826. They stalled, with the excuse that manuscript was not legible, and eventually Cauchy mislaid it. It was not published until 1841. | |
| Feb 6, 2010 at 19:08 | history | answered | Anweshi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |