From tuberculosis contracted while in Paris, after travelling by sled to Froland to visit his fiancée. He died two days before receiving an offer to become a professor at the University of Berlin. He was 26 at the time, but had managed to move the world of mathematics so far ahead that famous French mathematician Charles Hermite said: "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years"

Died April 6th, 1829

Abel's Binomial Theorem. Proven when he was 16 years old.