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Radical Solutions
- schoen 7y agoThis article is a mini-biography of the mathematician Évariste Galois, founder of Galois theory.
- empath75 7y agoI’ve thought for a few years that there’s a great movie to be made of his life.
- javajosh 7y agoIt's great to read a sympathetic biography of someone like this, who in modern times would get labeled with a personality disorder and heavily medicated for it. Makes you wonder though about all the people like this that did not invent Galois theory.
- gigama 7y ago"The third-year curriculum had just been changed, and would now introduce students to arithmetic and geometry alongside their continued study of the classics. Galois was about to meet mathematics. Few blind dates have gone so well." LOL... great line. But really, yet another proof how an apparent "failure" can lead to unexpected "success" Or as some put it, "When one door closes, another opens."
- emmelaich 7y ago> Galois ... suggesting there was something fishy in Poisson’s delay. Heh
- contingencies 7y agopoisson = fish in French
- lidHanteyk 7y agoGalois would be happy to know how important his work on finite fields was to discovering and formalizing cryptography, both for the ways in which it has empowered political revoloutionaries, and also for the irony that it is one of the most applied maths in the world. As a cryptographer once said to me in jest, "I wish I were able to make an impact like Galois. But if I were Galois, I'd already be dead."