The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
Edición de la obra The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
| Autor | Mario Livio |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Souvenir Press Ltd |
| Fecha de publicación | Mar 16, 2006 |
| Páginas | 368 |
| Formato | hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780285637436 |
| ISBN-10 | 0285637436 |
| OCLC | 62532556 |
| Número de Cutter | L788e |
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.