09 / Mathematical Lives
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Galois Before Dawn
The letter was final. The theory was not.
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Évariste Galois spent the night before a fatal pistol duel annotating and organizing his mathematical ideas. He died at twenty, but his work became foundational to modern group theory.
The six elements of S₃ are exact, while the lead ball and short wake recall the duel without turning the mathematics into a generic graph.