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Évariste Galois

1811 - 1832

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Évariste Galois (; French: [evaʁist ɡalwa]; 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem that had been open for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra. Galois was a staunch republican and was heavily involved in the political turmoil that surrounded the French Revolution of 1830. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Évariste Galois is the 25th most popular mathematician (up from 27th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from France (up from 155th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Mathematician.

Évariste Galois is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He was a French mathematician who is best known for his work in group theory and for being killed in a duel at the age of 20.

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Among mathematicians, Évariste Galois ranks 25 out of 1,004. Before him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Henri Poincaré, Pierre-Simon Laplace, David Hilbert, Joseph Fourier, and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. After him are Hero of Alexandria, John von Neumann, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Diophantus, Gerolamo Cardano, and François Viète.

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Among people born in 1811, Évariste Galois ranks 3. Before him are Franz Liszt, and Napoleon II. After him are Urbain Le Verrier, Robert Bunsen, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Théophile Gautier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Isaac Singer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Vissarion Belinsky. Among people deceased in 1832, Évariste Galois ranks 3. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Napoleon II. After him are Jean-François Champollion, Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham, Georges Cuvier, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Rasmus Rask, Muzio Clementi, Jean-Baptiste Say, and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Évariste Galois ranks 144 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles VII of France (1403), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Hugh Capet (940), Charles IX of France (1550), Pope Clement IV (1190), and Jean Cocteau (1889). After him are Bernard of Clairvaux (1090), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122), Roland Barthes (1915), Charles I of Anjou (1226), Gérard Depardieu (1948), and Paul Verlaine (1844).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Évariste Galois ranks 7. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Henri Poincaré (1854), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), and Joseph Fourier (1768). After him are François Viète (1540), Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), and Sophie Germain (1776).

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