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Quick Info

Born

25 October 1811
Bourg La Reine (near Paris), France

Died

31 May 1832
Paris, France

Summary

Évariste Galois was a French mathematician who produced a method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals and is famous for his development of early group theory. He died very young after fighting a duel.

Biography

Évariste Galois' father Nicholas Gabriel Galois and his mother Adelaide Marie Demante were both intelligent and well educated in philosophy, classical literature and religion. However there is no sign of any mathematical ability in any of Galois' family. His mother served as Galois' sole teacher until he was 12 years old. She taught him Greek, Latin and religion where she imparted her own scepticism to her son. Galois' father was an important man in the community and in 1815 he was elected mayor of Bourg-la-Reine.

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Évariste Galois

French mathematician (1811–1832)

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Évariste Galois (;^[1]French:[evaʁistɡalwa]; 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) was a French mathematician and political activist. 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 problem that had been open for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory,^[2] two major branches of abstract algebra.

Galois was a staunch republican and was heavily involved in the political turmoil that surrounded the French Revolution of 1830. As a result of his political activism, he was arrested repeatedly, serving one jail sentence of several months. For reasons that remain obscure, shortly after his release from prison, Galois fought in a duel and died of the wounds he suffered.^[3]

Life

Early life

Galois was born on 25 October 1811 to Nicolas-Gabriel Galois and Adélaïde-Marie (née D

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Evariste Galois

Born: Oct 25, 1811, in Bourg-la-Reine, French Empire

Died: May 31, 1832 (at age 20), in Paris, Kingdom of France

Nationality: French

Famous For: Helping develop the foundation for group theory

Evariste Galois was a French mathematician whose work laid foundations for group theory and Galois Theory. He was the very first person to use the term ‘group’ as a technical word in mathematics.

Galois’ Early Life

Evariste Galois was born on October 25, 1811. His father, a member of the French First Republic, headed Bourg-la- Reine’s liberal party. After the return of Louis XVIII to throne in 1814, Galois’ father became mayor. His mother was a great reader of classical literature and Latin and this influenced Galois’ education for the first 12 years.

In October of 1823, he joined Lycee Louis-le-Grand where he managed to perform very well even after experiencing some difficulties. After his prize in Latin, Galois became bored with his studies. At 14, he began to focus on mathematics.

A Budding Mathematician

Galois read Eleme