August Leopold Crelle (17 March 1780 – 6 October 1855) was a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

. He was born in Eichwerder near

Wriezen Wriezen () is a town in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 11 km southeast of Bad Freienwalde. Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Wriezen.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Curr ...

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, and died in

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. He is the founder of ''Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' (also known as ''

Crelle's Journal ''Crelle's Journal'', or just ''Crelle'', is the common name for a mathematics journal, the ''Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' (in English: ''Journal for Pure and Applied Mathematics''). History The journal was founded by Augus ...

''). He befriended

Niels Henrik Abel Niels Henrik Abel ( , ; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solvin ...

and published seven of Abel's papers in the first volume of his journal. In 1841, he was elected a foreign member of the

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. He was elected as a member to the

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in 1853.

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Crelle, August Leopold (11.3.1780 - 6.10.1856)
2016 1780 births 1855 deaths People from Wriezen People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg 19th-century German mathematicians Niels Henrik Abel Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences {{Germany-mathematician-stub