http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/galois/ always busy counting, doubting every figured guess . . . Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/galois/#comment-3921 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:20:23 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=1859#comment-3921 There is an evaluation of Galois as a “géomètre révolutionnaire”, and in particular his treatment of groups, by Peter Neumann in the current European Mathematical Society Newsletter. In particular, Neumann concludes that “Galois discovered or invented groups for himself; With the possible exception of Ruffini in 1799 … no mathematician had published anything like them before.”

]]> http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/galois/#comment-3237 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:37:29 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=1859#comment-3237 [...] Galois’s 200th Birthday was celebrated at Peter Cameron’s Blog and Mathlog (who also celebrated Chern’s 100th [...]

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