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Évariste Galois

French mathematician, killed in a duel at 20 in 1832, whose work on the symmetry groups of polynomial equations founded what is now called Galois theory.

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Asked to define the Langlands program, its own specialists give answers that do not overlap

Quanta put a simple question to the mathematicians extending what has been billed as a grand unified theory of mathematics. The cause of their disagreement is structural. A sweeping claim rests on very technical individual results, in a discipline that declines to interpret what it cannot prove.

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