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050 00 QA174.2|b.L58 2005 
100 1  Livio, Mario,|d1945- 
245 14 The equation that couldn't be solved :|bhow mathematical 
       genius discovered the language of symmetry /|cMario Livio 
260    New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|cc2005 
300    x, 353 p. :|bill. ;|c25 cm 
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. [309-332] and 
       index 
520    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 
600 10 Galois, Evariste,|d1811-1832 
650  0 Group theory|xHistory 
650  0 Galois theory|xHistory 
650  0 Symmetric functions|xHistory 
650  0 Symmetry|xMathematics|xHistory 
650  0 Diophantine analysis|xHistory 
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