Radical Solutions
by Marisa Brook from Damn Interesting on (#51995)
Paris, 29 May 1832. All through the night, a young Frenchman named Evariste Galois stayed awake, quill in hand, frantically scrawling notes and equations across dozens of sheets of paper. He had only been studying mathematics seriously for a few years, but he had proven to be a veritable prodigy. After quickly exhausting the knowledge [...]