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Gonna turn this into my "cool maths" topic

Here's another one dealing with group theory (actually its foundations)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois_theory

Dude was like 18 when he came up with this...and was shot and killed in a duel at 20. And his stuff was so revolutionary no one could understand it for some time.

But his theory proves there is no formula for solving quintic equations in terms of coefficients (like how you can with the quadratic formula...and there's a beefy one for cubics etc but impossible for quintics)

What a great mind