Mathematica(@mathemetica):Cauchy rejected it. Fourier died with it. The prize went to two other men. Galois submitted his memoir on equation theory several times. It was never published in his lifetime. Cauchy refused the first attempt. In February 1830, on Cauchy’s advice, Galois sent it to Academy secretary Joseph Fourier for the Grand Prix. Fourier died soon after. The memoir was lost. That year’s prize went to Niels Henrik Abel (posthumously) and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. Galois published three papers anyway. One laid the foundations of Galois theory. One treated the numerical solution of equations. The third introduced the idea of a finite field.

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Cauchy rejected it. Fourier died with it. The prize went to two other men. Galois submitted his memoir on equation theory several times. It was never published in his lifetime. Cauchy refused the first attempt. In February 1830, on Cauchy’s advice, Galois sent it to Academy secretary Joseph Fourier for the Grand Prix. Fourier died soon after. The memoir was lost. That year’s prize went to Niels Henrik Abel (posthumously) and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. Galois published three papers anyway. One laid the foundations of Galois theory. One treated the numerical solution of equations. The third introduced the idea of a finite field.