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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
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Hardcover
from Simon & Schuster (September 13, 2005)
9780743258203 | details & prices | 353 pages | 6.75 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $26.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Simon & Schuster (August 22, 2006)
9780743258210 | details & prices | 353 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $15.00
About: 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.
About: 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.