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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved

Mario Livio

2005 · EN

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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Paperback
2006
368 pp · EN
9780743258210

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