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In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, Évariste Galois, the twenty-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another. Arguing that not even the purest mathematics... read more
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Introduction: A Showdown in Paris
Part I: Natural Men
The Eternal Child
Natural Mathematics
Part II: Heroes and Martyrs
A Habit of Insult: The Short and Impertinent Life of Évariste Galois
The Exquisite Dance of the Blue Nymphs
A Martyr to Contempt
Part III: Romantic Mathematics
The Poetry of Mathematics
Purity and Rigor: The Birth of Modern Mathematics
Part IV: A New and Different World
The Gifted Swordsman
Conclusion: Portrait of a Mathematician
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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- Amir R. Alexander (Author)
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- Dewey: 510.9
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