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People should read up on Galois theory and the story behind it. It involves a french youth, the french revolution, groundbreaking maths, and tangentially Poisso

People should read up on Galois theory and the story behind it. It involves a french youth, the french revolution, groundbreaking maths, and tangentially Poisson, Fourier and Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi. His life should be a movie. :-)

rzzzt 8y ago
The Determinants of a Matrix
twtw 8y ago
It's always been interesting to me that both Galois and Abel accomplished so much despite dying so young. Most introductions to Galois theory that I've read have mentioned his duel.