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Évariste Galois: Quick Facts

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Born October 25, 1811 • France
Died May 31, 1832 (aged 20) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Galois group • Galois theory • solution by radicals • squaring the circle • trisecting the angle

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Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
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Camille Jordan
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Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
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John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
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James Gregory.
James Gregory
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Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
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Jesse Douglas
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Felix Klein
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John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
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Enrico Betti
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Ferdinand von Lindemann
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Georg Frobenius
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Efim Zelmanov
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Leonard Eugene Dickson
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French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
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Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
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Portrait of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace wearing formal attire with a sash and star-shaped medal, looking slightly to his left.
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
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Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
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