GALOIS, EVARISTE

Additional reading Paul Dupuy, La Vie d'variste Galois, published in the Annales Scientifiques de l'cole Normale Suprieure, 3rd Series, vol. 13, pp. 197266 (1896), is the basic biographical work. See also Eric Temple Bell, Men of Mathematics, ch. 20 (1937, reprinted 1961), for a highly readable biographical sketch, featuring strong opinions of the establishment's disastrous mistreatment of Galois. The crits et mmoires mathmatiques, ed. by Robert Bourgne and J.-P. Azra with a preface by J. Dieudonn (1962), contains all the available writings of Galois, with a running commentary, and reproduces photographically many pages of his original manuscripts. A historic survey is B. Melvin Kiernan, The Development of Galois Theory from Lagrange to Artin, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci., 8:40154 (1971). Brief, elegant, and self-contained is Emil Artin, Galois Theory, 2nd ed. (1944).