[HN Gopher] Evariste Galois
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       Evariste Galois
        
       Author : areoform
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-11-27 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | acomar wrote:
       | he was extremely insightful and developed new math so
       | effortlessly. if he'd survived, a lot of math would have advanced
       | more quickly than it did.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | or he just peaked early. there's no way to know that he would
         | have had any more insights, as well as no way of knowing if he
         | wouldn't. he didn't, and that's all we have.
         | 
         | Einstein gave us GR, yet lived a long life to be known for
         | something he did in his much younger days.
        
           | bionsystem wrote:
           | While I agree with the Einstein argument, odds are that a
           | talented young scientist, given enough years to live, has
           | some good chances to find more than his early carrier
           | findings. At least his odds are better than if he dies
           | young...
        
       | coprogram wrote:
       | Based on his achievements before the age of 20, I'm going to
       | assume that the person who killed him was a time traveller.
        
       | __rito__ wrote:
       | I recently read a really nice short overview of Galois' life.
       | This was in Simon Singh's book- Fermat's Last Theorem.
       | 
       | I highly recommend the whole book as well, as well as his "Code
       | Book".
        
         | Daver555 wrote:
         | +2 for two solid recommendations.
        
       | badrabbit wrote:
       | The person who invented the math we use every day in aes-gcm died
       | in a duel and participated in the french revolution. That's
       | pretty wild.
       | 
       | I had an unpopular comment about not using your age to prop up
       | your work (17 or 70, who cares) from what I can tell you were not
       | considered a child prodigy or abnormally accomplished even back
       | in the day for doing things in late teens and early twenties.
       | Alexander the great did most of his conquering by 25. The concept
       | if a teenager is very modern. After like 13 you were a man/woman
       | as much as any other.
        
       | nitnelave wrote:
       | Leave it to a French revolutionary to theorize about the
       | decomposition of a group into left and right Cosettes
        
       | fuzztester wrote:
       | I had seen this company web site some years ago.
       | 
       | https://galois.com/
        
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