GALOIS

galois, evariste (1811-1832), french mathematician, was born on the 25th of october 1811, and killed in a duel on the 31st of may 1832. an obituary notice by his friend auguste chevalier appeared in the _revue encyclopedique_ (1832); and his collected works are published, _journal de liouville_ (1846), pp. 381-444, about fifty of these pages being occupied by researches on the resolubility of algebraic equations by radicals. this branch of algebra he notably enriched, and to him is also due the notion of a group of substitutions (see equation: _theory of equations_; also groups, theory of). his collected works, with an introduction by c.f. picard, were published in 1897 at paris.