"The third-year curriculum had just been changed, and would now introduce students to arithmetic and geometry alongside their continued study of the classics. G

"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."