Self-portraits with Évariste Galois (and the shadow of Camille Jordan)
This paper investigates the collections of 19th century texts in which Evariste Galois’s works were referred to in connection to those of Camille Jordan. Before the 1890s, when object-oriented disciplines developed, most of the papers referring to Galois have underlying them three main . These groups of texts were revolving around the works of individuals: Kronecker, Klein, and Dickson. Even though they were mainly active for short periods of no more than a decade, the three networks were based...