Inspirational story

Evalis Garova


Galois was born on October 25, 1811, in an era of great turmoil. At that time, the French emperor Napoleon was at the peak of power, but in the following year, the Russian campaign took place, Napoleon was defeated, and he was exiled in 1814. The throne was replaced by Louis XVIII. In 1815, Napoleon fled Elba Island, entered Paris, and returned to power. However, three months later, it was defeated by Waterloo and was again exiled. Louis XVIII took over the throne.

When Garowa was 12 years old, she entered a royal high school. This is a prestigious but authoritarian. He was allowed to be 16 years old. After that, he was specializing in mathematics research, and other subjects could not attract his attention. He wrote: "The student should only be in the highest field of mathematics. This is completely trapped in the enthusiasm of mathematics. I think that he allowed him to study other subjects besides mathematics, which would be the best for him. Otherwise, he will be wasted here, and all he has done is to make his teachers have a headache, and he is punished.

Garro's craving and performance of mathematics is beyond the scope of the teacher. He directly uses the works written by contemporary mathematics masters as a teaching material. At the age of 17, he proposed the first paper of his life. At this point, the road ahead of him seemed to be unimpeded, but no one expected that his talent became the biggest obstacle to his progress.

His problem solving often has innovative and subtleties, but he often does not get the appreciation of the judges. In addition, he is calculating in his mind, and he does not bother to clearly write a detailed argument on paper. This makes the mediocre judges have headaches. So that it was rejected twice in the road to further education.

He did not lose his life and continued to study his beloved mathematics. In the 19th century, in addition to the solution of the quadratic equation, the solutions of the cubic and quadratic equations have been solved. However, the method of the equation ax5+bx4+cx3+dx2+ex+f=0 is not solved five times. Garova focused on finding ways, and at the age of 17, there was good progress, and two papers were presented to the French Academy of Sciences. At that time, the judge was the mathematician Cauchy. The performance of Garrowa deeply shocked Cauchy. Although Garowa did not propose a five-step equation in the paper, it did have a visionary vision. Cauchy had to be in Galois. The conclusion is enough to win the mathematics award.

However, during his time, his mayor was forced to commit suicide because of political conspiracy, but his enthusiasm for political activities was enhanced. After attending the funeral of his father, return to Paris. He rushed to rewrite his research paper into a monograph before the deadline for the competition, and sent it to the committee by the secretary of the Academy of Sciences, Fu Liye, but it was on him again. Just a few weeks before the judging, Fourier died of illness. And the papers of Garowa have never appeared on the committee.

Garova thought that his thesis was deliberately banned by members who were infected with political prejudice. After that, the frustrated genius joined the anti-government militias, was arrested and imprisoned, and was almost politically assassinated in prison. In prison, he is afraid that the results of his research will disappear. He works all night, writes all the theorems, and desperately tries to make his discovery recognizable by the world. He has always believed that these theorems fully clarify the solution to the fifth-order equation. Difficulties.

After he was released from prison, he was involved in a love affair. Because of a favorite, he made a decisive battle with a man and threw himself to death. A mathematical genius, such a premature death, and with this amazing ending, in front of the world, can not help but regret it.

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