An edition of The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved (2005)
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
By Mario Livio
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Publish Date
August 22, 2006
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
eng
Pages
368
Description:
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.