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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Rite of Passage

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 am

Wikipedia—

"On June 2, Évariste Galois was buried in a common grave of the Montparnasse cemetery whose exact location is unknown."

Évariste Galois, Lettre de Galois à M. Auguste Chevalier

Après cela, il y aura, j'espère, des gens qui trouveront leur profit à déchiffrer tout ce gâchis.

(Later there will be, I hope, some people who will find it to their advantage to decipher all this mess.)

Martin Gardner on the above letter—

"Galois had written several articles on group theory, and was merely annotating and correcting those earlier published papers."

The Last Recreations, by Martin Gardner, published by Springer in 2007, page 156.

Leonard E. Dickson

Image-- Leonard E. Dickson on the posthumous fundamental memoir of Galois

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