A Social History of the “Galois Affair” at the Paris Academy of Sciences (1831)
A Social History of the “Galois Affair” at the Paris Academy of Sciences (1831)
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巴黎科学院“伽罗瓦事件”的社会史（1831 年）
DOI：
10.1017/s0269889709990251
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发表时间：
2010
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0.3
通讯作者：
C. Ehrhardt
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作者：
C. Ehrhardt
这篇文章提供了“伽罗瓦事件”的社会历史，该事件发生在1831年，当时法国科学院决定拒绝一位有抱负的数学家埃瓦里斯特·伽罗瓦提交的一篇论文。为了历史化的意义伽罗瓦的工作时，他试图赚取承认他的研究代数方程的解决方案，本文探讨了两个相互关联的问题。首先，它分析了学术代数的做法和数学家在世纪重建伽罗瓦的研究的科学意义的培训方式。通过强调科学争论的历史偶然性，本文认为，要使数学家的工作历史化，我们也必须使科学世界历史化。本文的第二部分进一步寻求一个新的角度对伽罗瓦的短期职业生涯分析的文化，社会和制度的动态，管理如何数学界来认识到一个有抱负的数学家作为自己的一个。
Argument This article offers a social history of the “Galois Affair,” which arose in 1831 when the French Academy of Sciences decided to reject a paper presented by an aspiring mathematician, Évariste Galois. In order to historicize the meaning of Galois's work at the time he tried to earn recognition for his research on the algebraic solution of equations, this paper explores two interrelated questions. First, it analyzes scholarly algebraic practices and the way mathematicians were trained in the nineteenth century to reconstruct the scientific meaning of Galois's research. By emphasizing the historically contingent nature of scientific debates, the paper argues that to historicize the work of a mathematician, we must historicize the scientific world as well. The second part of this article goes further to seek a fresh perspective on Galois's short career by analyzing the cultural, social, and institutional dynamics that governed how the mathematical community came to recognize an aspiring mathematician as one of its own.