[codebaobab]

Does anyone have any insight into how Galois made the mental leap to his solution? Everything I've read says (or implies) that his solution came completely out of left-field--i.e. it wasn't really related to anything that had come before him.

And along those lines, does anyone know of an English translation of Galois' paper?

[sovande]

Samuel Johnson: ''Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging'' Or in Galois case a duel.