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Born October 25, 1811 • France
Died May 31, 1832 (aged 20) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Galois group • Galois theory • solution by radicals • squaring the circle • trisecting the angle

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Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
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Camille Jordan
French mathematician
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
Belgian mathematician
John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
English mathematician
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
Sophus Lie
Norwegian mathematician
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
Felix Klein
German mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Enrico Betti
Italian mathematician
Ferdinand von Lindemann
German mathematician
Georg Frobenius
German mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
Russian mathematician
Leonard Eugene Dickson
American mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official

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