The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry - Hardcover

Livio, Mario

 
9780743258203: The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0743258207 ISBN 13: 9780743258203
Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry in nature and the arts, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick Abel and Evariste Galois to solve the quintic equation and give birth to group theory. By the author of The Golden Ratio. 50,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mario Livio is a senior astrophysicist and the Head of the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of The Golden Ratio, a highly acclaimed book about mathematics and art for which he received the International Pythagoras Prize and the Peano Prize, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, and The Accelerating Universe.  He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0743258207
ISBN 13 
9780743258203
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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