The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry image
ISBN-10:

0743258207

ISBN-13:

9780743258203

Author(s): Livio, Mario
Edition: First Edition
Released: Sep 13, 2005
Publisher: Simon&Schuster
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
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Description:

Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry in nature and the arts, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick Abel and Evariste Galois to solve the quintic equation and give birth to group theory. By the author of The Golden Ratio. 50,000 first printing.












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