Group Theory
Ruffini’s 1799 work marked a major development for group theory. Ruffini developed Joseph Louis Lagrange's work on permutation theory, following 29 years after Lagrange’s "Réflexions sur la théorie algébrique des equations" (1770–1771) which was largely ignored until Ruffini who established strong connections between permutations and the solvability of algebraic equations. Ruffini was the first to controversially assert the unsolvability by radicals of algebraic equations higher than quartics. This angered many members of the community such as Malfatti (1731–1807). Work in this area was later carried on by those such as Gauss and Galois who succeeded in such a proof.
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