“Galois... was... imprisoned... for radical views. ...[H]e was to take part in a duel, in which he was killed, but that... was an assassination plot. They covered it up. He was... murdered by the {{w|secret police}} because of his radical opinions.., but the last night.., he stayed up... scribbling his notes which formed the foundations of modern mathematical theory, the theory of groups.”

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