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Rothman Tony “The Short Life of Evariste Galois.” Scientific American, April 1982, Vol. 246, No. 4, pp. 136–149.

Rothman Tony “Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois.” American Mathematical Monthly, February 1982, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 84–106.

Infeld Leopold Whom the Gods Love: The Story of Evariste Galois. Reston, Virginia: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1948.

Bell Eric Temple Men of Mathematics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. Read this chiefly for the biographies of other eminent mathematicians, to compare their lives with the brief life of Galois.

Montour Kathleen Marie “The Marvelous Boys: Thomas Chatterton, Evariste Galois, and Their Modern Counterparts.” Gifted Child Quarterly, Spring 1978, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 68–78.