Évariste Galois
Born: October 25, 1811
Died: May 31, 1832 (aged 20)
Bio: Évariste Galois was a French mathematician born in Bourg-la-Reine. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years.