So beautiful. So glad to find stuff like this here.
Galois is perhaps the most romantic figure of all. They say he wrote his papers in jail, the night before his duel. His brother cried when he was dying, and he told him something like: "Why do you cry? It´s me, who´s dying".
For the type of math you present I thought you would mention Euler. Another very romantic figure, but on the opposite side of the spectrum. The perfect family guy, combined with the perfect scientist. You don´t find those easily.
I did not think Galois was related with complex algebra. But I am in no way an expert. Just a dilletante fan.
Yes, I'm also a sucker for those stories and I'll weave some into my math text.
The complex numbers, being the field extension of the reals, are extremely integral to Galois theory, the study of the symmetries of field extensions.