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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58843332 Title: The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry Author: Mario Livio Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0743258207 9780743258203 OCLC:58843332

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The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry

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The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry

Author:	Mario Livio
Publisher:	New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2005.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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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Named Person:	Evariste Galois; Evariste Galois
Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Mario Livio Find more information about:
ISBN:	0743258207 9780743258203
OCLC Number:	58843332
Description:	x, 353 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	Symmetry -- eyE s'dniM eht ni yrtemmyS -- Never forget this in the midst of your equations -- The poverty-stricken mathematician -- The romantic mathematician -- Groups -- Symmetry rules -- Who's the most symmetrical of them all? -- Requiem for a romantic genius.
Responsibility:	Mario Livio.
More information:	Publisher description Table of contents only Sample text Contributor biographical information

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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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