> I have a student writing a paper on Abel's proof of the insolvability of
> fifth and higher degree polynomial equations by radicals. Abel's two
> papers on this are in French. While that's no problem for me, it is for
> my student! Does anyone know if these have been translated into English
> by anyone? I don't have the time to make translations for my student.
>
> Thanks,
> David Pengelley
There is a translation of the first of the papers, "Me'moire sur les
e'quation alge'briques ..." in D. E. Smith *A Source Book in
Mathematics*, pp. 261-66. I don't know about the second paper.
Bill Tait