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Évariste Galois

1811 - 1832

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Évariste Galois (; French: [evaʁist ɡalwa]; 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem that had been open for 350 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Évariste Galois has received more than 1,803,522 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Évariste Galois is the 27th most popular mathematician (down from 26th in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from France (down from 152nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Mathematician.

Évariste Galois is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He was a French mathematician who is best known for his work in group theory and for being killed in a duel at the age of 20.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Évariste Galois ranks 27 out of 1,004. Before him are Hero of Alexandria, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Luca Pacioli, John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and John Forbes Nash Jr.. After him are Apollonius of Perga, John Napier, François Viète, Diophantus, Gerolamo Cardano, and Georg Cantor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Évariste Galois ranks 3. Before him are Napoleon II, and Franz Liszt. After him are Théophile Gautier, Robert Bunsen, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Urbain Le Verrier, Isaac Singer, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Vissarion Belinsky. Among people deceased in 1832, Évariste Galois ranks 4. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Napoleon II, and Jean-François Champollion. After him are Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham, Georges Cuvier, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Jean-Baptiste Say, Muzio Clementi, Rasmus Rask, and Friedrich Kuhlau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Évariste Galois ranks 155 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Braque (1882), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Pope John XXII (1244), Zinedine Zidane (1972), Henry II of England (1133), and Petronius (27). After him are Jean-François Millet (1814), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Georges Pompidou (1911), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), François Viète (1540), and Jacques Cartier (1491).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Évariste Galois ranks 7. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Henri Poincaré (1854), Joseph Fourier (1768), and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717). After him are François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Pope Sylvester II (938), Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), and Gaspard Monge (1746).

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