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Galois — Mathematician who died at twenty from a duel, 1811–1832
Son of a mayor, a pupil at Louis-le-Grand, twice refused at Polytechnique, at seventeen he submitted a first memoir on the solvability of equations, which the Académie lost and then rejected. A republican, twice imprisoned in 1831, he was shot in the stomach in a pistol duel on 30 May 1832, near the étang de la Glacière, after spending the night writing to his friend Auguste Chevalier what he was leaving behind. He died at the Cochin hospital and was buried in the common grave of the Montparnasse cemetery. (Editorial synthesis)
Galois was born on 25 October 1811. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis and Institut Henri-Poincaré)
Galois was born in Bourg-la-Reine. (source: Larousse)
Galois died on 31 May 1832. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Galois died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Galois died of peritonitis, following a bullet wound received in a duel. (source: Institut Henri-Poincaré)
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