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Galois's Brief Life — A Genius at 20
Amid political turmoil, twenty-year-old Évariste Galois studied when polynomial equations can be solved by radicals. His roughly seven-page letter before a duel did not create the theory overnight; it summarized work already done and questions he wanted other mathematicians to examine.
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1811
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Bourg-la-Reine
Born in Bourg-la-Reine
Galois grew up south of Paris in a liberal household led by his mayor father and classically educated mother. His intense turn toward mathematics came in his later school years.
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