An Introduction to the Theory of Groups
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 13, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780387942858
First sentence: Generalizations of the quadratic formula for cubic and quartic polynomials were discovered in the sixteenth century, and one of the major mathematical problems thereafter was to find analogous formulas for the roots of polynomials of higher degree; all attempts failed.