EL 118 Final Project: The Tragic History of Evariste Galois

A study of the fabled life of a brilliant mathematician using discrete models of mathematical logic

Dylan Cashman

DISCLAIMER: The author of this work did not intend for this to be a factual biography. It is in no way to be used as factual evidence in the study of Galois' life. It also is not a formal treatise, in any way, of modern mathematics. It is simply an exploratory project.The author of this work did not intend for this to be a factual biography. It is in no way to be used as factual evidence in the study of Galois' life. It also is not a formal treatise, in any way, of modern mathematics. It is simply an exploratory project.

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The biography is divided up into seven different versions of the same story. They range from the most abstract, Biography 7, to the most literal, Biography 1.

It is suggested that you begin with biographies 3, 4, or 5.

Biography 1
Biography 2
Biography 3
Biography 4
Biography 5
Biography 6
Biography 7

As an experiment, I put the documents into a spatial hypertext program, and drew geometric functions through them. I then compiled narratives from the articles they passed through. Note the contrast between a regular narrative and a non-linear narrative.

To differentiate between the different narratives, I will assign colors to the text coming from each biography as follows:

Biography 1
Biography 2
Biography 3
Biography 4
Biography 5
Biography 6
Biography 7