The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry / Mario Livio
Imprint
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005
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CCQ - Lusail Female Library
QA174.2
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Description
x, 353 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309-332] and index
Summary
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