The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
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Word Count
92,000 words, Guess
Page Count
368 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
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- ISBN-100743258207
- ISBN-139780743258203
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- Goodreads582394
- Library of Congress Control Number2005044123
- OCLC Control Number58843332
- Open LibraryOL7947849M
Classifications
- LCCQA174.2 .L58 2005
Description
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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