A young man who lived a brilliant, and tragically brief existence, he has been given a long list of titles. Many have seen him as a revolutionary, a lover, a romantic. His exceptional work earned him the label of genius, while his impetuous personality has caused others to think him a fool. Through his whirlwind of an existence he has filled all these roles and others besides; but outside of the political fervor of his youth and his romantic involvement, who was this young prodigy?.
I. Childhood and Education.
On the 25th of October 1811, Evariste Galois was born to Adelaide-Marie Demante and Nicholas-Gabriel Galois, the mayor of Bourg-La-Reine. With literate and well-read parents who accommodated a school, Evariste was educated with his brother and sister by their mother, Adelaide-Marie. They were taught in the essential subjects of the day - literature, religion, and philosophy, but not much more. It wasn't until he entered his first school, the lycee Louis-de-Grand in Paris, that he first encountered mathematics. .
His first year at Louis-de-Grand was successful, and even resulted in a few prizes for Galois. His grades were decent, and his schoolwork was well done. But as soon as he uncovered Legendre's texts on geometry and Lagrange's theory of equations, he went from a well-balanced student to a boy with time for nothing but mathematics. Work for other classes was neglected, and sloppily done at best - time and thought were consumed with pursuing mathematical interests. With a focus and consistency that almost contradicts his impulsive personality, Galois mastered a large amount of mathematics in an astoundingly short amount of time. Before he was 18, he had already published his first work on number theory concerning continued fractions. .
It was at this school that Galois encountered the books that sparked his mathematical genius, but it was there that he first encountered politics.
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