“Abel... died of tuberculosis before he could get his first job... These two figures are the pioneers of modern mathematics. All that we do... rests on their pioneering work. ...These ...are ...the two most romantic figures in the history of mathematics. We all dote on them. ...We all admire both of them... [T]hey showed... that an equation of degree 5 cannot be solved by... roots, but... you have to solve it by using more complicated... {{w|elliptic function}}s.”