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This entry was posted in Uncategorised on September 17, 2013 by Ben Sparks.

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Random Factoid

Evariste Galois: 1811-1832

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Evariste Galois died at 20, from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, in a duel with a mysterious opponent. Despite this tragically early end, his mathematical publications can truly be said to have changed the mathematical world.
Hermann Weyl said: “This letter [his last], if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind.”

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