It had been Abel’s intention to travel with Crelle to Paris and visit Gauss in Gottingen on the way. However, news got back to Abel that Gauss was not pleased to receive his work on the insolubility of the quintic, so Abel decided that he would be better not to go to Gottingen. It is uncertain why Gauss took this attitude towards Abel’s work since he certainly never read it – the paper was found unopened after Gauss’s death Ayoub gives two possible reasons:-