The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved

Name: The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
ISBN: 9780743258210

How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

Mario Livio

2006·368 pages·Nonfiction

Biography History & Politics

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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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved

How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

Mario Livio

Year

2006

Pages

368

Type

Nonfiction

Biography History & Politics Science & Mind

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