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The equation that couldn't be solved: how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry

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Symmetry -- eye s'dnim eht ni yrtemmyS -- Never forget this in the midst of your equations -- The poverty-stricken mathematician -- The romantic mathematician -- Groups -- Symmetry rules -- Who's the most symmetrical of them all? -- Requiem for a romantic genius.;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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO2588886
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Year:
2005
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Language:
English
Pages:
(x, 353 pages) : illustrations
ISBN 10:
0743258207
ISBN 13:
9780743258203
ISBN:
0743274628,9780743274623,9780743258203,0743258207

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