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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

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Évariste Galois

Évariste Galois

Évariste Galois (IPA: [evaʁist gaˈlwa]; October 25, 1811 - May 31, 1832) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-la-Reine. 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 long-standing problem. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory, a major branch of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. He was the first to use the word "group" (French: groupe) as a technical term in mathematics to represent a group of permutations . A radical Republican during the monarchy of Louis Philippe in France, he died from wounds suffered in a duel under murky circumstances at the age of twenty.

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