Erland Samuel Bring (19 August 1736 – 20 May 1798) was a
Swedish mathematician.
Bring studied at
Lund University
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, type = Public research university
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A solution in radicals or algebraic solution is a closed-form expression, and more specifically a closed-form algebraic expression, that is the solution of a polynomial equation, and relies only on addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisi ...]
of equations.
Bring had developed an important transformation to simplify a
quintic equation
In algebra, a quintic function is a function of the form
:g(x)=ax^5+bx^4+cx^3+dx^2+ex+f,\,
where , , , , and are members of a field, typically the rational numbers, the real numbers or the complex numbers, and is nonzero. In other words, a ...
to the form
(see
Bring radical). In 1832–35 the same transformation was independently derived by
George Jerrard. However, whereas Jerrard knew from the past work by
Paolo Ruffini
Paolo Ruffini ( Valentano, 22 September 1765 – Modena, 10 May 1822) was an Italian mathematician and philosopher.
Education and Career
By 1788 he had earned university degrees in philosophy, medicine/surgery and mathematics. His works incl ...
and
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 ...
that a general quintic equation can not be solved, this fact was not known to Bring, putting him in a disadvantage.
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Bring's curve
In mathematics, Bring's curve (also called Bring's surface) is the curve given by the equations
:v+w+x+y+z=v^2+w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2=v^3+w^3+x^3+y^3+z^3=0.
It was named by after Erland Samuel Bring who studied a similar construction in 1786 in a Promo ...
is named after him.
References
1736 births
1798 deaths
18th-century Swedish mathematicians
Algebraists
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