"We must... indicate the involuntary participation of E. Galois... and N. H. Abel... in the development of Kronecker’s Pythagoreanism. Galois... adhered to no such creed. Nor did Abel. But it was in the attempt to understand and elucidate the of equations, left (1832)... in a... fragmentary and unapproachable condition, that Kronecker acquired some of his skill. Both Kronecker and Dedekind, two of the founders (E. E. Kummer... being a third) of the theory of algebraic numbers, were inspired partly by their scrutiny of the Galois theory to begin their... revolutionary work in algebra and arithmetic. ...Galois and Abel mark the beginning of one modern approach to algebra. The transition from highly finished individual theorems to abstract and widely inclusive theories..."
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