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《Galois Theory》 – Coursera by Ecole Normale Supérieure
Complete Free COURSERA Course 《Galois Theory》 (French) from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS 巴黎师范) , the university which kicked out Galois as a student in1830, but apologized to him 150 years later.
Today ENS ranked top 3 globally (after Harvard, Princeton IAS) in Math research & education, producing 1/3 of the world’s Fields Medalists by a single university.
For English Text translation (choose Google translate)
From Polynomial to Modern Algebra
Examples Polynomial with degree > 5
Richard Dedekind
Julius Wilhelmina Richard Dedekind (6 Oct 1831 – 12 Feb 1916)
– Last student of Gauss at Göttingen
– Student and closed friend of Dirichlet who influenced his Mathematical education
– Introduced the word Field (Körper)
– Gave the first university course on Galois Theory
– Developed Real Number ‘Dedekind Cut‘ in 1872
– Accomplished musician
– Never married, lived with his unmarried sister until death
– “Whatever provable should be proved.”
– By 1858: still yet established ?
– Gave strong support to Cantor on Infinite Set.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Dedekind.html
