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The French mathematician

Author: Tom Petsinis
Publisher: New York : Walker and Co., 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A fictionalized biography of the 1830s French mathematician and republican revolutionary, Evariste Galois, whose work in group theory became one of the fundamentals in modern mathematics. He died at the age of 21 in a duel. By an Australian writer.
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Genre/Form: Biographical fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Évariste Galois; Evariste Galois; Evariste Galois
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tom Petsinis
ISBN: 0802713459 9780802713452
OCLC Number: 39060779
Description: v, 426 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Tom Petsinis.

Abstract:

A fictionalized biography of the 1830s French mathematician and republican revolutionary, Evariste Galois, whose work in group theory became one of the fundamentals in modern mathematics. He died at the age of 21 in a duel. By an Australian writer.

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