Comment on Understanding QuaternionsparentComments−Entalpi7yPeople should read up on Galois theory and the story behind it. It involves a french youth, the french revolution, groundbreaking maths, and tangentially Poisson, Fourier and Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi.His life should be a movie. :-)−twtw7yIt's always been interesting to me that both Galois and Abel accomplished so much despite dying so young.Most introductions to Galois theory that I've read have mentioned his duel.−rzzzt7yThe Determinants of a Matrix
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People should read up on Galois theory and the story behind it. It involves a french youth, the french revolution, groundbreaking maths, and tangentially Poisson, Fourier and Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi.
His life should be a movie. :-)
It's always been interesting to me that both Galois and Abel accomplished so much despite dying so young.
Most introductions to Galois theory that I've read have mentioned his duel.
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