Evariste Galois' short life was lived against the turbulent background of the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France, the 1830 revolution in Paris and the accession of Louis-Phillipe. This new and scrupulously researched biography of the founder of modern algebra sheds much light on a life led with great intensity and a death met tragically under dark circumstances. Sorting speculation from documented fact, it offers the fullest and most exacting account ever written of Galois' life and work. It took more than seventy years to fully understand the French mathematician's first mémoire (published in 1846) which formulated the famous "Galois theory" concerning the solvability of algebraic equations by radicals, from which group theory would follow. Obscurities in his other writings - mémoires and numerous fragments of extant papers - persist and his ideas challenge mathematicians to this day. Thus scholars will welcome those chapters devoted specifically to explicating all aspects of Galois' work. A comprehensive bibliography enumerates studies by and also those about the mathematician.
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"This very pleasant, interesting and well-written biography is based on the analysis and interpretation of a series of hitherto neglected documents found by the author in the French archives. Certainly a book to recommend and that every mathematical library should have." --Numerical Algorithms
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of one of the strangest chapters in the history of mathematics. For those who know of Galois' life only from E.T.Bell's telling this work will hold surprises and serve to part his overly romantic fog with the clear light of solid scholarship.
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- The Intersection of History and Mathematics (Science Networks. Historical Studies) by Sasaki Chikara in Back Matter
- Evariste Galois by Dalmas in Back Matter
- Galois Theory: Lectures Delivered at the University of Notre Dame by Emil Artin (Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures, Number 2) by Emil Artin in Back Matter
- Norbert Wiener 1894-1964 (Vita Mathematica) by Pesi R. Masani in Back Matter
- Modern Algebra and the Rise of Mathematical Structures by Leo Corry in Back Matter
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- Solving Polynomial Equation Systems I: The Kronecker-Duval Philosophy (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications) by Teo Mora on page 118, and Back Matter
- Algebra: Einfuhrung in Die Galoistheorie (De Gruyter Lehrbuch) by Gernot Stroth in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Algebra: Einfuhrung in Die Galoistheorie (German Edition) by Gernot Stroth in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Introduction to the Galois Correspondence by Maureen H. Fenrick in Back Matter
- The Mathematics of Ciphers: Number Theory and RSA Cryptography by S.C. Coutinho in Back Matter
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