The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
Subtitle: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: August 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780743258210
Subjects: History Of Mathematics; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; History & Philosophy; Mathematics / History; Galois theory; Group Theory; History; Symmetric functions
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.