The equation that couldn't be solved : how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry / Mario Livio.
"Over the millennia, mathematicians solved progressively more difficult algebraic equations until they came to what is known as the quintic equation. For several centuries it resisted solution, until two mathematical prodigies independently discovered that it could not be solved by the usual me...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
©2005.
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Closed Stacks - Engineering Math & Physics Library - Stacks
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QA174.2 .L58 2005
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