Bernt Michael Holmboe was a Norwegian mathematician, born on 23 March 1795 at Vang in Valdres, the son of a priest. Tutored at home until he was fifteen, he was then sent to the Cathedral School of Christiania and later studied at the Royal Frederick University, where he served as an assistant to Christopher Hansteen. In 1818 he was hired to teach mathematics at the Cathedral School, where he taught Niels Henrik Abel, and his tutoring of Abel, in school and privately, is his best-known legacy. He moved to the Royal Frederick University in 1826 and wrote mathematics textbooks for secondary schools that were widely used. He died in Christiania in 1850.
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was a Norwegian mathematician.
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1. MacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews: Bernt Michael Holmboe (biography)
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He did not attend school in Eidsberg, however, but was tutored at home until he reached the age of fifteen when he was sent to the Cathedral School of Christiania.
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(23 March 1795-28 March 1850)
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was a Norwegian mathematician.
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