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In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, evariste Galois, the twenty-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot,... read full description


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Aug 31, 2010
Nick rated it: 3 of 5 stars
groundbreaking and meticulous research regarding the lives of galois, d'alambert, and abel (strongly refuting bell's the men of mathematics), but pretty repetitive after that, and lacking support for its central thesis.

the first book to have been read (for the first time, otherwise it'd be my cousin my gastroenterologist) in my new, permanent residence, hurrah! http://dank.qemfd.net/dankwiki/index.php... w00t

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Oct 02, 2010
Elizabeth rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Some really interesting points. But also super repetitive in places.
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