EL 118 Final Project: The Tragic History of Evariste Galois

A study of the fabled life of a brilliant mathematician using discrete models of mathematical logic

Dylan Cashman

DISCLAIMER: The author of this work did not intend for this to be a factual biography. It is in no way to be used as factual evidence in the study of Galois' life. It also is not a formal treatise, in any way, of modern mathematics. It is simply an exploratory project.The author of this work did not intend for this to be a factual biography. It is in no way to be used as factual evidence in the study of Galois' life. It also is not a formal treatise, in any way, of modern mathematics. It is simply an exploratory project.
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RESOURCES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois

The wikipedia article on our hero, Evariste Galois. I also used a few other Wikipedia articles, but since they are free domain, and if you are interested you'll probably be roped into finding them anyway, I won't list them here.

http://www.galois-group.net/g/EN/intro.html

A collection of resources related to Galois' life, including letters, manuscripts, and homeworks written by him.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:j-tYVcryBR8J:uh.edu/engines/asmedall.htm+brown+university+ecole+polytechnique&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

An historical essay on the history of the Ecole Polytechnique and the French school system.

Rigatelli, Toti. Evariste Galois. Vita Mathematica Series. Trans. John Denton. Boston: Birkhauser, 1996.

A fairly throrough biography of the mathematician.