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Facts About Evariste Galois Born October 25, 1811(1811-10-25) France Died May 31, 1832 (aged 20) Paris, France Nationality French Fields Mathematics Known for Work on the theory of equations and Abelian integrals
More Facts About Evariste Galois While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient conditions for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a long-standing problem.
Even More Facts About Evariste Galois His work laid the foundations for Galois theory, a major branch of abstract algebra.
Fun Facts About Evariste Galois He was the first to use the word “group" (French: groupe) as a technical term in mathematics to represent a group of permutations.