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Author Pesic, Peter

Title Abel's proof : an essay on the sources and meaning of mathematical unsolvability / Peter Pesic
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) : illustrations
Contents The scandal of the irrational -- Controversy and coefficients -- Impossibilities and imaginaries -- Spirals and seashores -- Premonitions and permutations -- Abel's proof -- Abel and Galois -- Seeing symmetries -- The order of things -- Solving the unsolvable
Summary The intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics
Analysis MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Abel, Niels Henrik, 1802-1829.
Abel, Niels Henrik, 1802-1829
Abel, Niels Henrik 1802-1829
Abel, Niels Henrik, 1802-1829.
Abel, Niels Henrik, 1802-1829.
Abel, Niels Henrik, (1802-1829)
Abel, Niels Henrik.
Equations, Roots of.
31.01 history of mathematics.
MATHEMATICS -- Algebra -- Elementary.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Equations, Roots of
Algebraische Gleichung
Unlösbarkeit
Vergelijkingen (wiskunde)
Equations, Roots of.
Équations algébriques.
Algèbre -- Histoire.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262281478
0262281473
0585482667
9780585482668
0262162164
9780262162166