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The last letter Galois wrote to his friend Auguste Chevalier the night before the fatal duel ends with the words:
After that, I hope some men will find it profitable to sort out this mess.
Liouville was the person to do this job. The great importance of this event in the history of mathematics justifies a closer analysis of Liouville’s merits in this field.
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Lützen, J. (1990). Galois Theory. In: Joseph Liouville 1809–1882. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 15. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0989-8_14
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