Mathematician:Évariste Galois

French mathematician famous for dying at the age of 20 as the result of a duel.

Despite his total collected works amounting to a mere 60 pages or so, he had a significant influence in the development of the field of group theory.

His innovative approach to the problem of the insolubility of the quintic led to the field known now as Galois theory. There has been a lot of old rubbish written about Galois, not least the overly-romanticised account of his life as given by E. T. Bell in his.

For a rather more balanced and sober account, see the Historical Introduction in Ian Stewart's.

Nationality
French.

History

 * Born: 25 Oct 1811, Bourg La Reine (near Paris), France
 * Died: 31 May 1832, Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

 * Galois Theory
 * Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
 * Galois Field
 * Galois Group
 * Galois Connection