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Evariste Galois: A Study in Genius | Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | MARCH 1968

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PERHAPS the central purpose of our new undergraduate reading room in the Bradley Mathematics Center is to make available some of the evidence for the human side of mathematics. The impressions one gets from the formal course work at Dartmouth lead all too often to the popular conclusion that mathematics is a towering alabaster monument, ruthlessly eternal, erected to the memory of Truth by the hand of Reason. But mathematics is intensely human; it is the product of human passions, and is shaped by the human drama. Never to see this is never to understand its true character. I should like to illustrate this thesis by recounting for you the story of Evariste Galois.* Galois was a young French mathematician of the early 19th century who carved into the granite pages of history a truly extraordinary legend. He, among all mathematicians, was perhaps the most nearly perfect expression of the spirit of genius, and his legend surely the most compelling romance of all. The term genius should al

Evariste Galois: A Study in Genius | Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | MARCH 1968 Article Evariste Galois: A Study in Genius MARCH 1968 REESE T. PROSSER, Evariste Galois: A Study in Genius REESE T. PROSSER, MARCH 1968 View Article Pages Article Evariste Galois: A Study in Genius MARCH 1968 REESE T. PROSSER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS PERHAPS the central purpose of our new undergraduate reading room in the Bradley Mathematics Center is to make available some of the evidence for the human side of mathematics. The impressions one gets from the formal course work at Dartmouth lead all too often

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