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August Leopold Crelle
August Leopold Crelle (17 March 1780 – 6 October 1855) was a German mathematician. He was born in Eichwerder near Wriezen, Brandenburg, and died in Berlin. He is the founder of "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik" (also known as "Crelle's Journal"). He befriended Niels Henrik Abel and published seven of Abel's papers in the first volume of his journal.
In 1841, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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 August Leopold Crelle (Berlin) in 1826 and edited by him until his death in 1855. It was one of the first major mathematical journals that was not a proceedings of an academy. It has published many notable papers, including works of Niels Henrik