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

Biology

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire begins publication of Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux, a key text on teratology.^[1]

Évariste Galois presents a general condition for the solvability of algebraic equations, thereby essentially founding group theory and Galois theory.^[2]
Peter Dirichlet proves Fermat's last theorem for n = 14.
János Bolyai system of non-Euclidean geometry is first published.

February 12 - In England, a second cholera pandemic begins to spread, starting from the East End of London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. It will claim at least 3000 victims. In Liverpool, Kitty Wilkinson becomes the "Saint of the Slums"^[3] by promoting hygiene.^[4]
July 19 - Anatomy Act in the United Kingdom provides for licencing and inspection of anatomists, and for unclaimed bodies from public institutions to be available for their dissection.
Dr James Kay publishes The moral and physical condition of the working-class employed in the cotton manufacture on Manchester.

James Rennell's An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean, and of those which prevail between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic is published posthumously by his daughter. It will not be significantly superseded for more than a century.^[5]

^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 1911.
^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
^ "'Slum Saint' honoured with statue". BBC News. 4 February 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8499533.stm.
^ Rathbone, Herbert R. (1927), Memoir of Kitty Wilkinson of Liverpool, 1786-1860, H. Young & Sons
^ "James Rennell - the father of oceanography". Southampton: National Oceanographhy Centre, James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation and Climate. 2009. http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/history/rennell.php. Retrieved 2011-04-05.