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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry 1st Edition by Mario Livio ISBN 0743258215 978-0743258210

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
File Extension: DJVU
File size: 7.97 MB
Pages: 364
Author: Mario Livio
ISBN: 9780743258203, 0743258207
Language: English
Year: 2005

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ISBN 10: 0743258215 

ISBN 13: 978-0743258210

Author: Mario Livio 

What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry-known as group theory-did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn't be solved.

For thousands of years mathematicians solved progressively more difficult algebraic equations, until they encountered the quintic equation, which resisted solution for three centuries. Working independently, two great prodigies ultimately proved that the quintic cannot be solved by a simple formula. These geniuses, a Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel and a romantic Frenchman named Évariste Galois, both died tragically young. Their incredible labor, however, produced the origins of group theory.

The first extensive, popular account of the mathematics of symmetry and order, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved is told not through abstract formulas but in a beautifully written and dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest and most intriguing mathematicians in history.

Table of contents:

  1. Symmetry

  2. Symmetry in the Mind's Eye

  3. Never Forget This in the Midst of Your Equations

  4. The Poverty-Stricken Mathematician

  5. The Romantic Mathematician

  6. Groups

  7. Symmetry Rules

  8. Who's the Most Symmetrical of Them All?

  9. Requiem for a Romantic Genius

  10. Appendix 1: Card Puzzle

  11. Appendix 2: Solving a System of Two Linear Equations

  12. Appendix 3: Diophantus’s Solution

  13. Appendix 4: A Diophantine Equation

  14. Appendix 5: Tartaglia's Verses and Formula

  15. Appendix 6: Adriaan van Roomen’s Challenge

  16. Appendix 7: Properties of the Roots of Quadratic Equations

  17. Appendix 8: The Galois Family Tree

  18. Appendix 9: The 1415 Puzzle

  19. Appendix 10: Solution to the Matches Problem

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