Marilyn

Évariste Galois

Notes

Évariste Galois (IPA: [evaʁist ɡaˈlwa]; October 25, 1811 – May 31, 1832) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-la-Reine. 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 long-standing problem. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory, a major branch of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. He was the first to use the word "group" (French: groupe) as a technical term in mathematics to represent a group of permutations. A radical Republican during the monarchy of Louis Philippe in France, he died from wounds suffered in a duel under murky circumstances at the age of twenty.
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Robert Capa

"There are more enigmas in the shadow of a man who walks in the sun than in all the religions of the past, present and future. De Chirico"

Giorgio de Chirico
Place Métaphysique Italienne 1921
Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
Kunsthalle Mannheim.
Photograph: Margita Wickenkaiser

Carl Friedrich Gauss, princeps mathematicorum

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (IPA: /ˈɡaʊs/, German: Gauß, Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. Sometimes known as the princeps mathematicorum (Latin, usually translated as "the Prince of Mathematicians", although Latin princeps also can simply mean "the foremost") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
Gauss was a child prodigy, of whom there are many anecdotes pertaining to his astounding precocity while a mere toddler, and made his first ground-breaking mathematical discoveries while still a teenager. He completed Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, his magnum opus, in 1798 at the age of 21, though it would not be published until 1801. This work was fundamental in consolidating number theory as a discipline and has shaped the field to the present day.
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Last Year at Marienbad - Delphine Seyrig