This is one of those books I would call "bridges to the other land". The other land is where genius live. Those who are smart enough to get a glimpse of genius build the bridges. Then those who are smart enough to know oneself is not smart enough, could go sight-seeing and get smitten by the magic castles and those who dwell there....
This book in particular tells stories of mathematician genius Niels Henrik Abel and Evariste Galois. And their magic castle is "group theory".
Other books came to mind:
Fermat's enigma by Simon Singh: how Fermat's 350 years old last theorem ("I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.") was solved by Andrew WilesThe professor and the madman by Simon Winchester: mad professor Dr WC Minor and how the Oxford English dictionary was created
The longitude by Dava Sobel: how lone clockmaker John Harrison solved the longitude problem
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