Evariste Galois
Evariste Galois
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埃瓦里斯特·伽罗瓦
DOI:
10.1038/129786c0
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
64.8
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Évariste Galois
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作者:
Évariste Galois
Abstract“No episode in the history of thought”, says Dr. G. Sarton, “is more moving than the life of Evariste Galois—the young Frenchman who passed like a meteor about 1828, devoted a few feverish years to the most intense meditation, and died in 1832 from a wound received in a duel at the age of twenty. He was still a mere boy, yet within these short years he had accomplished enough to prove indubitably that he was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.” The tragic story of Galois was told by Dr. Sarton in the Scientific Monthly for Oct. 1921. Born at the village of Bourg-la-Reine near Paris on Oct. 25, 1811, he was the son of a schoolmaster and mayor, who had married a lawyer's daughter of good education, said to have been “generous to a fault and original to the point of queerness”. Taught at first by his mother, in 1823 Galois was sent to the College Louis-le-Grand, and after twice failing to gain admission to the Éeole Polytechnique, in 1829 entered the École Normale. At school he had been conspicuous for the qualities he had undoubtedly inherited from his mother, and was little understood by his teachers. “The furor of mathematics possesses him”, one of them wrote. His career at the É” cole Normale was short. Embittered by his failure to attract attention to his work, and distracted by the suicide of his father, he became embroiled in political discussion and he was expelled. His outspoken republicanism afterwards led to his imprisonment, and to his youthful miseries was added that of an intrigue, which probably led to the duel which cost him his life. The duel took place on the early morning of May 30, 1832, and he died next day in the Hôpital Cochin. His complete works fill only sixty-one small pages, but a French geometer, publishing a large volume some forty years after Galois' death, declared that it was simply a commentary on the latter's discoveries.