The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
by Mario Livio
Group theorySymmetry (Mathematics)Symmetric functionsDiophantine analysisGalois theoryHistorySymmetryMathematics
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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Book data: Open Library