Évariste Galois

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1. When was Évariste Galois born?October 25, 1811
2. Where was Évariste Galois born?Bourg-la-Reine, France
3. When did Évariste Galois die?May 31, 1832 (age 20)
4. Who was Évariste Galois?Évariste Galois was a French math prodigy born in 1811 who created Galois theory, a new way to understand equations.
5. What did Galois discover about solving equations?He showed that whether an equation can be solved by radicals depends on a group of permutations of its roots, called the Galois group.

Field Theory: A branch of abstract algebra that studies fields, which are algebraic structures with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Permutation Group: A group whose elements are permutations of a set and whose group operation is the composition of permutations.
Abstract Algebra: A branch of mathematics that studies algebraic structures such as groups, rings, fields, and modules in a general and abstract way.