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WE have frequently had occasion to direct our readers' attention to the high-class memoirs which this energetic Society puts forth. The volume before us is one of a kind that we should like to see brought out by our own scientific Societies. Under the title “Niels-Henrik Abel, sa vie et son action scientifique,” it contains a full and most valuable sketch, by Prof. C. A. Bjerknes, of Christiania, of the writings and life of one of the ablest and acutest mathematicians of modern times. That the account is a full one will be evident when we say that the work occupies 365 octavo pages: it is a translation in French from the original memoir, and is further enriched by a considerable appendix. The labour of seeing the present form of the work through the press has principally fallen upon M. Hoüel, to whom the author warmly expresses his thanks. Abel was born at Findö, Christiansand, on August 5, 1802, and died near Arendal on April 6, 1829, and was interred at Froland.
Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Bordeaux.
3e série, tome i. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1885.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 34, 99 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034099a0
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