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Évariste Galois
Évariste Galois was a fiery 19-year-old French revolutionary who, the night before a fatal duel, scribbled the ideas that founded modern abstract algebra and solved the 350-year-old riddle of which polynomial equations can be solved by radicals.
PeopleRichard Dedekind
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind was a German mathematician who revolutionized our understanding of real numbers through his elegant Dedekind cuts construction and laid the groundwork for modern abstract algebra and set theory.