
Irving Kaplansky
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LOCATION: Berkeley, CA, United States
Director Emeritus, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California. George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Chicago. Author of Commutative Rings.
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Évariste Galois was a French mathematician famous for his contributions to the part of higher algebra now known as group theory. His theory provided a solution to the long-standing question of determining when an algebraic equation can be solved by radicals (a solution containing square roots, cube…
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