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- Title
- The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
- Author
- Livio, Mario
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- like_new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0743258207
- ISBN 13
- 9780743258203
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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"Mario Livio has done a marvelous job combining the gripping human saga of the lives of two mathematical geniuses who died young with the key mathematical ideas of symmetry and structure. He explains important mathematical concepts with both clarity and precision, making them understandable to every reader. This is one of the best books about mathematics I have ever read."--Amir D. Aczel, author of "Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else" and "Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem"
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