Talk:Mathematics/Notable mathematicians

Notable mathematicians

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Évariste Galois

Description

Évariste Galois

Notability

• died in a duel at the age of twenty
• proved that 5th and higher degree equations are not solvable by radicals
• founder of group theory

References

• Évariste Galois