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What famous mathematician died at age twenty in a duel?

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 ∙ 15y ago
Updated: 4/28/2022

Evariste Galois died in a duel over a woman. As he was dying, it is said that he told his brother to go find his mathematical manuscripts and make them famous, told him not to cry because it was a valiant thing to die at twenty

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Evariste Galois worked on quadratics when he was a teenager. He was able to establish the means to solve quadratics using radicals and laid the ground work for what became Galois theory. Unfortunately, he died when he was only 20 years old during a duel.

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