Évariste Galois
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Évariste Galois (October 25, 1811 – May 31, 1832) was a French mathematician, who, while still in his teens, was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a long-standing problem.
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- ... un auteur ne nuit jamais tant à ses lecteurs que quand il dissimule une difficulté.
- ... an author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.
- in the preface of Deux mémoires d'Analyse pure, October 8, 1831, edited by Jules Tannery (1908). Manuscrits de Évariste Galois. Gauthier-Villars. p. 27.
