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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved

Mario Livio · 2006

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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.

Book details

Year
2006
Language
English
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Editions
6
Pages
368
ISBN
9780743258210

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