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

 
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
   Author: Mario Livio
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Average rating of 4/5 Symmetry in Mathematics, Physics, Art and Nature, 2007-10-27
Mario Livio is a charming author. His writing style is simple, elegant, erudite, and alternatingly lyrical and witty and on occasions insightful.

The author traces the evolution to the solutions of equations from the linear in Babylonians, to the quadratic in the Egyptians and the Arabs to the cubic and the quartic in Renaissance. And then there was an impasse to the solution of the quintic -the equation that couldn't be solved - which persisted for centuries until the early 19th century. Then two young and tragic mathematical geniuses whose lives ended prematurely in their twenties in the case of Galois at exactly twenty following a duel, proved that the quintic could not be solved using an algebraic formula. The young geniuses were the Norwegian Niels Henrik Abel and the Frenchman Evariste Galois. In their quest for a solution they developed group theory -the language of symmetry - which not only aided in the solution of quintic equations but proved extremely fertile in Mathematics and had an enormous impact in Physics including attempts for the development of the Grand Unification Theory and relevant superstring theories and attendant supersymmetries.

I shall conclude by drawing attention to the ubiquity of Symmetry from the music of Bach to selecting our mates.


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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780285637894
ISBN: 0285637894
Label: Souvenir Press Ltd
Manufacturer: Souvenir Press Ltd
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2007-03-09
Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
Studio: Souvenir Press Ltd
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