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Re:Nine-year-old child to graduate university by toby on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:48PM (#21547546)
Galois is a very interesting historical prodigy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois

Discovered group theory and died in a duel at 20. His work is very important to modern cryptography.

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Re:Nine-year-old child to graduate university by djohnston on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:17PM (#21548325)
I do remember his story, basically the most romantic badass in the history of maths
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