Sure, he was a precocious student. What came after that is more difficult to measure. edit: He may well be a genius. To almost all of his contemporaries, Galoi

Sure, he was a precocious student. What came after that is more difficult to measure. edit: He may well be a genius. To almost all of his contemporaries, Galois seemed like an incomprehensible twit. Wolfram may be a Galois, or he may just be a precocious blowhard full of nothing but hot air.