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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.
PeopleNiels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematical prodigy who, before dying at 26, proved the unsolvability of the quintic equation and founded the theory of elliptic and Abelian functions.