Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois

DOI10.2307/2320923zbMath0499.01017OpenAlexW4255019218WikidataQ56047689 ScholiaQ56047689MaRDI QIDQ3964505

Tony Rothman

Publication date: 1982

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2320923

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

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