The equation that couldn't be solved: how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry
Galois, Evariste, Galois, Évariste, Livio, Mario
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.;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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Рік:
2005
Видавництво:
Simon & Schuster
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0743274628
ISBN 13:
9780743274623
Файл:
EPUB, 2.53 MB
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english, 2005
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