Évariste Galois
French mathematician
Died when: 20 years 219 days (247 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Évariste Galois (/gæl'w??/;French: [eva?ist galwa]; 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.
His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra.He was a staunch republican and was heavily involved in the political turmoil that surrounded the French Revolution of 1830.
As a result of his political activism, he was arrested repeatedly, serving one jail sentence of several months.For reasons that remain obscure, shortly after his release from prison he fought in a duel and died of the wounds he suffered.
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