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Laura Toti Rigatelli Evariste Galois, 1811–1832 (1996; originally published in Italian, 1993), is a scholarly biography. Écrits et mémoires mathématiques: édition critique intégrale des manuscrits et publications d’Évariste Galois, 2nd ed. rev. and augmented, ed. by Robert Bourgne and Jean-Pierre Azra (1997), contains all the available writings of Galois, with a commentary, and includes photographs of pages of his original manuscripts.

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