

In 2011, to celebrate the bicentenary of Évariste Galois's birth, a special issue of Tangente Sup (issue 60) was published with an ambitious guiding principle: to describe Galois theory not in today's terms, but using the knowledge available at the time!



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Présence d’Évariste Galois 1811–1832 (APMEP, 1982) is a special issue devoted entirely to the young algebraist, marking the 150th anniversary of his death.

In Évariste Galois's day, the school system was still somewhat different from ours. For example, students could choose to skip certain grades depending on their intended course of study.

Do you know what Sophie Germain thought of Évariste Galois? What became of his loyal friend Auguste Chevalier? And who was Galois's opponent in his duel?
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