George Paxton Young
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Paxton Young was a Canadian philosopher and professor of logic, metaphysics and ethics at the University of Toronto. He studied the quintic polynomial equation and in 1888 described how to solve a solvable quintic equation, without providing an explicit formula.