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The year 1832 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Mathematics 2 Physics 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Mathematics

• Évariste Galois presents a general condition for the solvability of algebraic equations, thereby essentially founding group theory and Galois theory
• Peter Dirichlet proves Fermat's last theorem for n = 14

[edit] Physics

• Michael Faraday states his laws of electrolysis

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Michael Faraday; Simeon Poisson

[edit] Births

• June 17 - William Crookes (d. 1919), chemist and physicist.
• August 16 - Wilhelm Wundt (d. 1920), physiologist and psychologist.
• December 12 - Ludwig Sylow (d. 1918), mathematician.

[edit] Deaths

• May 13 - Georges Cuvier (b. 1769), zoologist.
• May 31 - Évariste Galois (b. 1811), mathematician.
• August 24 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (b. 1796), mathematician
• September 2 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach (b. 1754), astronomer.