Title: The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
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.
Subjects: Group theory, Symmetry (Mathematics), Symmetric functions, Diophantine analysis, Galois theory, History, Symmetry, Mathematics, Symétrie, Histoire, Théorie des groupes
People: Evariste Galois (1811-1832)