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- From: ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay)
- Subject: Re: mathematician's marrying ages.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.011758.24276@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Keywords: Abel, Galois
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- References: <hubert.713379330@spica> <55Z55ZP@math.fu-berlin.de> <1992Aug13.184958.4632@eliot.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:17:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.184958.4632@eliot.uucp> andyc@eliot.uucp
- (Andy Collins) writes:
- |Galois got shot in a duel as I recall.
-
- This is true.
-
- |The night before the duel he scribbled all of his
- |theory down on paper and handed them to a friend (Who was it?...)
- |just before the duel.
-
- The story has been romanticized and exaggerated. For one thing, he
- didn't write it all down the night before.
-
- Keith Ramsay
- ramsay@raven.math.ubc.ca
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