The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry /
Livio, Mario, 1945-
The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry / Mario Livio. - New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005. - x, 353 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309-332] and index.
Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick Abel and Evariste Galois to solve the quintic equation and give birth to group theory.
0743258207 : HRD $26.95
Simon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 SAN 200-2442
2005044123
Galois, Evariste, 1811-1832.
Group theory--History.
Galois theory--History.
Symmetric functions--History.
Symmetry--Mathematics--History.
Diophantine analysis--History.
QA174.2 / .L58 2005
512/.2/09
The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry / Mario Livio. - New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005. - x, 353 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309-332] and index.
Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick Abel and Evariste Galois to solve the quintic equation and give birth to group theory.
0743258207 : HRD $26.95
Simon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 SAN 200-2442
2005044123
Galois, Evariste, 1811-1832.
Group theory--History.
Galois theory--History.
Symmetric functions--History.
Symmetry--Mathematics--History.
Diophantine analysis--History.
QA174.2 / .L58 2005
512/.2/09