In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, variste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of Modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel.
In the eighteenth century, Alexan.
Arguing that not even the purest Mathematics can be separated from its cultural background, Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the world.
That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander , marked the end of one era in Mathematics and the beginning of another.
In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, variste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of Modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel