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EVARISTE GALOIS (1811-1832)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 426 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GALOIS (1811-1832)  , See also:French mathematician, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:October 1811, and killed in a See also:duel on the 31st of May 1832 . An obituary See also:notice by his friend Auguste See also:Chevalier appeared in the Revue encyclopedique (1832); and his collected See also:works are published, See also:Journal de Liouville (1846), pp . 381-444, about fifty of these pages being occupied by researches on the resolubility of algebraic equations by radicals . This See also:branch of See also:algebra he notably enriched, and to him is also due the notion of a See also:group of substitutions (see See also:EQUATION: Theory of Equations; also See also:GROUPS, THEORY OF) . His collected works, with an introduction by C . F . See also:Picard, were published in 1897 at See also:Paris .

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