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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered The Language Of Symmetry
By
Mario Livio
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
September 13, 2005
Pages
353
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780743258203
ISBN-10
0743258207
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.75 by 10 in.
Weight
1.35 lbs.
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$26.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
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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