Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 39:40Died in a duel very young after recording his results the night before; "the Rimbaud of mathematics."
Évariste Galois
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Who is this?Évariste Galois (; French:; 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, two major branches of abstract algebra. […]
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Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?