Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (died 1832)

Évariste Galois

French mathematician (1811–1832)

Évariste Galois 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. His work laid the…