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282 Chapter 14. Reception <strong>of</strong> ABEL’s contribution to rigorization<br />

slightly marginal and not universally appreciated. Mathematicians who subsequently<br />

adhered to the rigorization program may have included ABEL among their heroes and<br />

have certainly adopted some <strong>of</strong> his notions and results but ABEL’S direct role was far<br />

from the role <strong>of</strong> the key initiator <strong>of</strong> the rigorization — CAUCHY.

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