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Évariste Galois Monument

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The site marks the spot of a memorial to Évariste Galois in the cemetery at Bourg-la-Reine.  But he was buried at Cimetière de Montparnasse in an unmarked grave.  Galois died at the age of 20 in a duel.  He had already solved a major problem in mathematics and there is no telling what he might have achieved had he not died.

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Évariste Galois

Évariste Galois (French: [evaʁist ɡalwa]) (25 October 1811 – 31 May 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 and group theory, two major branches 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 questionable circumstances at the age of twenty.

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