A Social History of the “Galois Affair” at the Paris Academy of Sciences (1831)

DOI10.1017/S0269889709990251zbMath1190.01007MaRDI QIDQ5190559

Caroline Ehrhardt

Publication date: 18 March 2010

Published in: Science in Context (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

French Academy of SciencesGaloisPoissontheory of equationsLacroix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics at institutions and academies (non-university) (01A74) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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Galois and the simple group of order 60 ⋮ A quarrel between Joseph Liouville and Guillaume Libri at the French Academy of Sciences in the middle of the nineteenth century ⋮ “Je n’ai point ambitionnée d’être neuf”: Modern Geometry in Early Nineteenth-Century French Textbooks

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• Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois
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