The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Geniu

ISBN: 0743258207

Author: Livio, Mario

Condition: new

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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