As we all know Galois is an ultimate math prodigy. At age 17 or 18 he published a paper which we now know as Galois theory. I want to just see how he thought mathematics by seeing his original paper(of-course translated in english).
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The best Galois full edition you will ever find is found here: https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Peter_M._Neumann_The_Mathematical_Writings.pdf
roland5999
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A google search for his 1897 collected works, Oeuvres mathematiques d'Évariste Galois, turns up quite a few freely available copies:
copy at Christophe Clanet's web pages
Gallica's copy of some work published in 1846 in Liouville's Journal
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Oeuvres mathématiques d'Évariste Galois by Évariste Galois is the PDF article in French about some of his published works.
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I know a few of his papers appear (translated) in a book Hawking edited, God Created the Integers. I'm sure his papers can be obtained elsewhere, probably for free even. The three in the book are
- On the conditions that an equation be soluble by radicals,
- On the primitive equations which are soluble by radicals, and
- On Groups and Equations and Abelian Integrals
The upside to Hawking's book (whose title is part of a quote by Kronecker, by the way) is that you get much more than just Galois's three papers. There are original works of Euclid, Archimedes, Descartes, Riemann, Cantor, Dedekind, and quite a few more (ironically, no Kronecker from what I can see!). The full table of contents can be viewed here.
I can't help but mention that the book is currently shockingly cheap, for 1300+ pages!
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Have a look at the Editions Jacques Gabay. They are providing reprints of old scientific books. They are in French, but not the formulas.
