A pilgrimage through the lands of structure, in sixteen waystones — being the group-theoretic arc of Pinter's A Book of Abstract Algebra, chapters I–XVI.
On the last night of May, 1832, a twenty-year-old named Évariste Galois sat up until dawn writing out everything he knew about a new mathematics — one that studied not numbers, but the shapes of symmetry itself. At sunrise he fought a duel, and lost.
His ghost now keeps the far gate of this road. He will not open it for the unproven. Walk the sixteen waystones, answer the keepers who bar each gate, and arrive at the end knowing what he knew.
Sworn testimony of chapters already mastered. Waystones up to and including this one stand unlocked.
Beyond the sixteenth waystone stands the Gate of Galois. It does not open for the unproven.