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The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry
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The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry
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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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Authors
Livio, Mario, 1945-
Subjects
Abel, Niels Henrik, 1802-1829.
Galois, Evariste, 1811-1832.
Group theory--History.
Galois theory--History.
Symmetric functions--History.
Symmetry--Mathematics--History.
Diophantine analysis--History.
Language
English
Dimensions
25 cm.