Évariste Galois

✶October 25, 1811

†May 31, 1832

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About their life

Évariste Galois 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.

French mathematician (1811-1832)

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Biography from the article Évariste Galois on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.