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Here is an english translation of the full letter. A tour de force. https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/004/10/0093-0100 https://www.ias.ac.in/article/f
by rsj_hn 5y ago
Here is an english translation of the full letter. A tour de force.
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/004/10/0093-0100 https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/004/10/0093-0100
The end of the letter, after making revolutionary advancements in group theory, solvability by radicals, and modular forms:
"You will get this Letter printed in the Revue Encyclopedique.
I have often dared in my life to advance propositions about which I was not sure, but all that I have written down has been in my mind for over an year, and it would not be too much in my interest to make mistakes so that one suspects me
of having announced theorems of which I would not have a complete proof.
You make a public request to Jacobi and Gauss to give their opinion, not as to the truth but as to the importance of these theorems.
After this, I hope there will be people who will profit by deciphering all this mess.
I embrace you effusively."