Bücher der Reihe Oeuvres completes de Niels Henrik Abel 2 Volume Set

Originally published in 1881, this is the first volume of the collected works of the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-29). It contains many of Abel's fundamental discoveries, including his proofs of the 'impossibility theorem' and the binomial theorem, and his famous 'Paris memoir' on elliptic functions.