The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry / Mario Livio.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.Description: x, 353 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0743258207 : HRD
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 512/.2/09 22
LOC classification:
  • QA174.2 .L58 2005
Summary: 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.
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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.

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