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Évariste Galois Quotes

1811–1832 France

Évariste Galois (October 25, 1811 – May 31, 1832) was a French mathematician, who, while still in his teens, developed the well-known Galois theory. Galois theory is capable to determine whether a polynomial with rational coefficient can be solved by radicals and give a clear insight about what kind of length ratio can be constructed by compass and straightedge, thereby solving the long-standing problems of solving a polynomial by radicals.

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Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty.

Léopold Infeld (1978)

Preserve my memory, since fate has not given me life enough for the country to know my name.

Il parait après cela qu'il n'y a aucun fruit à tirer de la solution que nous proposons. [It seems there is no fruit to be drawn from the solution we offer.]

... an author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

Mais je n’ai pas le temps et mes idées ne sont pas encore bien développées sur ce terrain qui est immense. [But I don't have the time and my ideas are not yet well developed on this immense terrain.]

It angered Galois sufficiently that he wrote directly below it

The mathematical writings of Évariste Galois (2011)

[This] science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.

Of mathematics — as quoted in Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980)

Poisson, reading Galois' First Memoir, found the proof of Lemma III insufficient, and wrote in pencil the following comment.

The mathematical writings of Évariste Galois (2011)

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