Évariste Galois Quotes

Évariste Galois was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. He died at age 20 from wounds suffered in a duel. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. October 1811 – 31. May 1832
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Famous Évariste Galois Quotes

“[This] science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.”

Of mathematics — as quoted in Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980) by Morris Kline, p. 99.

“It seems there is no fruit to be drawn from the solution we offer.”

citation needed
Il parait après cela qu'il n'y a aucun fruit à tirer de la solution que nous proposons.

“… an author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.”

... un auteur ne nuit jamais tant à ses lecteurs que quand il dissimule une difficulté.
in the preface of Deux mémoires d'Analyse pure, October 8, 1831, edited by [Jules Tannery, Manuscrits de Évariste Galois, Gauthier-Villars, 1908, 27]

“Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty.”

Ne pleure pas, Alfred ! J'ai besoin de tout mon courage pour mourir à vingt ans !
Quoted in: Léopold Infeld (1978) Whom the gods love: the story of Évariste Galois. p. 299.

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