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035			_a(OCoLC)58843332
037			_bSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 SAN 200-2442
050	0	0	_aQA174.2 _b.L58 2005
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100	1		_aLivio, Mario, _d1945-
245	1	4	_aThe equation that couldn't be solved : _bhow mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry / _cMario Livio.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _cc2005.
300			_ax, 353 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309-332] and index.
520			_aTraces 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.
650		0	_aGroup theory _xHistory.
650		0	_aGalois theory _xHistory.
600	1	0	_aGalois, Evariste, _d1811-1832.
650		0	_aSymmetric functions _xHistory.
650		0	_aSymmetry _xMathematics _xHistory.
650		0	_aDiophantine analysis _xHistory.
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