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Born
25 October 1811
Bourg La Reine (near Paris), France
Died
31 May 1832
Paris, France
Summary
Évariste Galois was a French mathematician who produced a method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals and is famous for his development of early group theory.

He died very young after fighting a duel.

Biography

Évariste Galois' father Nicholas Gabriel Galois and his mother Adelaide Marie Demante were both intelligent and well educated in philosophy, classical literature and religion.

However there is no sign of any mathematical ability in any of Galois' family.

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    • His mother served as Galois' sole teacher until he was 12 years old. She taught him Greek, Latin and religion where she imparted her own scepticism to her son. Galois' father was an important man in the community and in 1815 he was elected mayor of Bourg-la-Reine.



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