1824 in science

The year 1824 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Mathematics

* Niels Henrik Abel partially proves that the general quintic or higher equations cannot be solved by a general formula involving only arithmetical operations and roots.
* Augustin Louis Cauchy proves convergence of the Euler method. In this proof, Cauchy uses the implicit Euler method

Technology

* Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot scientifically analyzes the efficiency of steam engines.
* Patent issued to Joseph Aspdin for portland cement.
* Louis Braille, at age 15, develops the 6-dot code which allows the visually impaired to read and write faster than raised-letter encoding.

Awards

* Copley Medal: John Brinkley

Births

* February 7 - William Huggins (d. 1910), astronomer.
* February 16 - Peter Kozler (d. 1879), cartographer, geographer.
* March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff (d. 1887), physicist.
* June 26 - William Thomson (d. 1907), Lord Kelvin, physicist.
* June 28 - Paul Broca (d. 1880), anthropologist.
* Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (d. 1877), botanist.

Deaths