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Which mathematician said Abel's work would keep mathematicians busy for 500 years?

  • Charles Hermite

  • Adrien-Marie Legendre

  • Leonhard Euler

  • René Descartes

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Charles Hermite was a French mathematician who is considered one of the most important mathematicians of the 19th century. He is best known for his work on Abelian functions and his proof of the transcendence of e and π. Hermite also made important contributions to number theory, geometry, and analysis. In 1873, Hermite wrote that Abel's work would keep mathematicians busy for 500 years, and he was right.
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