>>13045426I have spent some time looking at Galois fields for some cryptocurrency package I am playing with.
Anyway this faggot in pic related, was a French mathematician who the therom is named after.
He was able to solve a maths problem that was unsolved for over 350 years while still in his teenage years.
He later died in 20s from wounds suffered in a sword fighting dual
He was also a political activists who orchestrated many rebellions against the French monarchy.