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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
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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. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
By Mario Livio
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Hardcover:

9780743258203 | Simon & Schuster, September 13, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: 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:

9780743258210 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, August 22, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: 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.

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