The person who changed the course of mathematics was Évariste Galois. Was the date of the duel with his rival certain? This brilliant twenty-year-old, instead of practicing shooting, was tirelessly trying to find the solution to the riddle he inherited from Abel: what is the mathematical formula that provides the solutions to the quintic equation?
Symmetry: the key concept in the works of visual artists, architects, and musicians. However, for mathematicians, the "symmetry of equations" remained, through the centuries, a desperate search.
(. . .) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Ian Stewart
- Publisher
- Traylos
- Original Title
- Why Beauty is Truth
- Type
- Technology, Positive Sciences Mathematics
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 460
- Release Date
- 12/2007
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789606640384
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