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The document discusses Paolo Ruffini, an Italian mathematician born in 1765. Ruffini is credited with developing synthetic division, a technique for dividing polynomials. He lost his teaching position during the French Revolution but continued his mathematical research. Notably, he worked to prove that the quintic equation cannot be solved by radicals, making him one of the first to discover this fact, though his work was not widely accepted at the time.
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