Ehrhardt, Caroline (Author)
The thrust of this article is to offer a new approach to the study of Galois's Mémoire sur les conditions de résolubilité des équations par radicaux. Drawing on methodology developed by social and cultural historians, it contextualizes Galois's work by situating it in the parisian mathematical milieu of the 1820s and 1830s. By reconstructing the social process whereby a young man became an established mathematician at the time, this article shows that Galois's trajectory was far from unusual, and most importantly, that he was not treated differently from other aspiring mathematicians. Second this article seeks to operate a shift from the writing of biographies of mathematicians to biographies of mathematical texts. Indeed, the meaning of a mathematical text is the product of a long social and scientific process, one that, in the case of Galois's text, took over one hundred years. During this long period, Galois's text was read, interpreted and recast by a large number of actors who did not agree as to its meaning and mostly construed it through local lenses. Only at the beginning of the 20th century, when Galois theory entered the realm of teaching in European countries, did it acquire a more unified meaning. By then, Galois, the aspiring mathematicians who had failed to convince the members of the Académie des sciences, was becoming a legend.
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(2011)
Évariste Galois: La fabrication d'une icône mathématique
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(2010)
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