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The Romantic Mathematician
French mathematical genius Evariste Galois (1811-1852) had a short, tragic life befitting the age of romanticism. The son of a mayor of a small town near Paris, he participated on the republican side in the Revolution of 1830, was arrested for alleged threats against King Louis Philippe, tried without success to get papers published by the Academy, and finally died at age twenty in a duel over a woman.
The night before the duel, fearing the worst, he wrote a letter to a friend summarizing his discoveries in the theory of equations and asking that they be submitted for comment to the era’s leading mathematicians. After this, he wrote, “there will be, I hope, some people who will find it to their advantage to decipher all this mess.”
As it turned out, Galois’s “mess” contained a unifying theory of groups that would prove crucial to modern algebra, geometry, and physics. This work did not reach a wide audience until 1846, when most of Galois’s papers were finally published in the Journal de mathematiques. Now considered a major figure in nineteenth-century mathematics, Galois fulfiIled the romantic destiny of the hero who burns brightly but briefly.
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