/sci/ - Science & Math

>radical

>regularly failed his exams in school while he concentrated on reading Legendre's Geometry cover to cover.

>Péclet wrote of the young genius "He knows absolutely nothing. I have been told that this student has mathematical ability; this certainly astonishes me. Judging by his examination, he seems of little intelligence, or has hidden his intelligence so well that I found it impossible to detect it"

> Galois also failed to gain admittance to the École Polytechnique not once, but two times. During the first of these examinations, in 1829, Galois was so frustrated by the inane questions that he vented his anger by throwing an eraser at his examiner

galois theory:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/galois
https://www.coursera.org/learn/theorie-de-galois

was galois the original shota?

galois theory was tough, so was graduate algebra 1 but that was just because they were taught by the same difficult professor who made massive and difficult homework assignments

electromagnetism was a difficult elective but the professor was an electrical engineer who couldnt teach and griffiths book is awful

Is it safe to say that Galois' work that gave the connection between intermediate field extensions L/M/K and subgroups of Gal(L/K) was the first problem solved by looking at it through a sort of different mathematical lens/transferring what is trying to be solved to a very different setting? Kind of hard to word but I hope I'm getting my question across, it just seems like he genuinely had a revolutionary way of thinking