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Great to see this course material public. It's a real missed opportunity though to not mention that Galois wrote a lot of it down staying up all night before be
by mcfunley 2y ago
Great to see this course material public. It's a real missed opportunity though to not mention that Galois wrote a lot of it down staying up all night before being shot.
- bubble12345 2y agoThat's a common myth. See this paper referenced in the wikipedia article: Rothman, Tony (1982). "Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois". The American Mathematical Monthly. 89 (2): 84–106. doi:10.2307/2320923. JSTOR 2320923
- ForOldHack 2y agoQuite the clickbait. You can only access it from the pay site, or unless you can get a school library to access it, which I will do. Only the first page is available free.
- bubble12345 2y agoOr you can paste the following JSTOR link into sci-hub. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2320923 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2320923