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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved

by Mario Livio

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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Group theorySymmetry (Mathematics)Symmetric functionsDiophantine analysisGalois theoryHistorySymmetryMathematicsSymétrieHistoire

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