You're 25-35 years old? You're running out of time!
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Love letter to the sensitive young man.
Évariste Galois discovered the foundations of group theory, threatened the King of France twice, joined a paramilitary movement bent on toppling the government, spent one night cracking a 350-year-old mathematical problem, and then died in a duel the very next morning for the sake of a woman. He was 20 years old. Youth is a force of nature. It possesses men and propels them to commit great and terrible things. One only needs to trace the thread of history to find that the knots were tied by people in their 20s and early 30s doing their Great Work while their spirit burned hot. This has…
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