Editing Évariste Galois (section)

=== Early life ===
Galois was born on 25 October 1811 to Nicolas-Gabriel Galois and Adélaïde-Marie (née Demante).<ref name=":0" /><ref name="stewart-gt">{{cite book
  | last = Stewart
  | first = Ian
  | title = Galois Theory
  | url = https://archive.org/details/galoistheory0000stew/page/
  | url-access = registration
  | publisher = Chapman and Hall
  | location = London
  | year = 1973
  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/galoistheory0000stew/page/ xvii–xxii]
  | isbn = 978-0-412-10800-6
  }}</ref> His father was a [[First French Republic|Republican]] and was head of Bourg-la-Reine's [[liberal party]]. His father became mayor of the village<ref name=":0" /> after [[Louis XVIII of France|Louis XVIII]] returned to the throne in 1814. His mother, the daughter of a [[jurist]], was a fluent reader of [[Latin]] and [[classical literature]] and was responsible for her son's education for his first twelve years.

[[File:Louis-le-Grand--cour-honneur.jpg|thumb|right|The Cour d'honneur of the [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]], which Galois attended as a boy.]]
In October 1823, he entered the [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]] where his teacher [[Louis Paul Émile Richard]] recognized his brilliance.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Math and mathematicians : the history of math discoveries around the world|last=C.|first=Bruno, Leonard|orig-year=1999|year=2003|publisher=U X L|others=Baker, Lawrence W.|isbn=978-0787638139|location=Detroit, Mich.|page=[https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun/page/172 172]|oclc=41497065|url=https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun|url-access=registration}}</ref> At the age of 14, he began to take a serious interest in [[mathematics]].<ref name=":1" />

Galois found a copy of [[Adrien-Marie Legendre]]'s ''[[Éléments de Géométrie]]'', which, it is said, he read "like a novel" and mastered at the first reading. At 15, he was reading the original papers of [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange]], such as the ''[[Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations]]'' which likely motivated his later work on equation theory,<ref>{{cite web |title=Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Reflexions-sur-la-resolution-algebrique-des-equations |website=britannica encyclopedia}}</ref> and ''Leçons sur le calcul des fonctions'', work intended for professional mathematicians, yet his classwork remained uninspired and his teachers accused him of putting on the airs of a genius.<ref name="stewart-gt"/>