Évariste Galois
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| Évariste Galois | |
 Galois age fifteen, drawn by a classmate.
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| Born | October 25, 1811 Bourg-la-Reine, France |
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| Died | May 31, 1832 (aged 20) Paris, France |
| Nationality |  French |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Known for | Work on the theory of equations and Abelian integrals |
Évariste Galois (IPA: [evaʁist ɡaˈlwa]; October 25, 1811 – May 31, 1832) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-la-Reine. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a long-standing problem. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory, a major branch of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. He was the first to use the word "group" (French: groupe) as a technical term in mathematics to represent a group of permutations. A radical Republican during the monarchy of Louis Philippe in France, he died from wounds suffered in a duel under murky circumstances[1] at the age of twenty.
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External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Évariste Galois”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- The Galois Archive (biography, letters and texts in various languages)
- Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois by Tony Rothman
- Biography in French
- La vie d'Évariste Galois by Paul Dupuy The first and still one of the most extensive biographies, referred to by every other serious biographer of Galois
- Œuvres Mathématiques published in 1846 in the Journal de Liouville, converted to Djvu format by Prof. Antoine Chambert-Loir at the University of Rennes.
- A short biography on Holistic Numerical Methods Institute
- Alexandre Dumas, Mes Mémoires, the relevant chapter of Alexandre Dumas' memoires where he mentions Galois and the banquet.
- Évariste Galois at Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Theatrical trailer of University College Utrecht's "Évariste - En Garde"
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