The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of SymmetrySimon and Schuster, 19 сент. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 368 The author of The Golden Ratio tells the “lively and fascinating” story of two nineteenth-century mathematicians whose work revealed the laws of symmetry (Nature). What do Bach’s compositions, Rubik’s Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry—known as group theory—did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn’t be solved. For three centuries, the quintic equation resisted efforts by mathematicians to find a solution. Working independently, two great prodigies ultimately proved that it couldn’t be solved by a simple formula. These geniuses, a Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel and a romantic Frenchman named Évariste Galois, both died tragically young. Their incredible labor, however, produced the origins of group theory. The first extensive, popular account of the mathematics of symmetry and order, The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved is told not through abstract formulas but in a dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest mathematicians in history. |
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... human body, most animals, and so many human artifacts possess a similar bilateral symmetry? Figure 1 And why do all those zoological features and creations of the human imagination exhibit such a symmetry in the first place? Most people ...
... human body, most animals, and so many human artifacts possess a similar bilateral symmetry? Figure 1 And why do all those zoological features and creations of the human imagination exhibit such a symmetry in the first place? Most people ...
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... human side of mathematicians. As we shall see, symmetry is the paramount tool for bridging the gap between science and art, between psychology and mathematics. It permeates objects and concepts ranging from Persian carpets to the ...
... human side of mathematicians. As we shall see, symmetry is the paramount tool for bridging the gap between science and art, between psychology and mathematics. It permeates objects and concepts ranging from Persian carpets to the ...
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... human intellect in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. I have put a tremendous effort into trying to solve the two-centuries-old mystery of the death of the protagonist of this story—the brilliant mathematician Évariste ...
... human intellect in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. I have put a tremendous effort into trying to solve the two-centuries-old mystery of the death of the protagonist of this story—the brilliant mathematician Évariste ...
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... human chromosome pairs fight damaging mutations by swapping genes. Because the Y lacks a partner, genome biologists ... humans, if you reflect the left half in a mirror you obtain something that is almost identical to the right half. I ...
... human chromosome pairs fight damaging mutations by swapping genes. Because the Y lacks a partner, genome biologists ... humans, if you reflect the left half in a mirror you obtain something that is almost identical to the right half. I ...
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... humans with is the optimal one. The Roman god Janus, for example, was the god of the gates and of new beginnings ... human-created objects that are symmetric with respect to mirror reflections. If you hold a sheet of paper with the ...
... humans with is the optimal one. The Roman god Janus, for example, was the god of the gates and of new beginnings ... human-created objects that are symmetric with respect to mirror reflections. If you hold a sheet of paper with the ...
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2 eyE sdniM eht ni yrtemmyS | 29 |
3 Never Forget This in the Midst of Your Equations | 51 |
4 The PovertyStricken Mathematician | 90 |
5 The Romantic Mathematician | 112 |
6 Groups | 158 |
7 Symmetry Rules | 198 |
8 Whos the Most Symmetrical of Them All? | 233 |
Appendix 4 A Diophantine Equation | 281 |
Appendix 5 Tartaglias Verses and Formula | 282 |
Appendix 6 Adriaan van Roomens Challenge | 285 |
Appendix 7 Properties of the Roots of Quadratic Equations | 286 |
Appendix 8 The Galois Family Tree | 288 |
Appendix 9 The 1415 Puzzle | 291 |
Appendix 10 Solution to the Matches Problem | 292 |
Notes | 293 |
9 Requiem for a Romantic Genius | 262 |
Appendix 1 Card Puzzle | 277 |
Appendix 2 Solving a System of Two Linear Equations | 278 |
Appendix 3 Diophantuss Solution | 280 |
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