The equation that couldn't be solved pdf

Mario Livio est né le 19 juin 1945, astrophysicien israélo-américain et auteur d'ouvrages de vulgarisation des sciences et des mathématiques. Pendant 24 ans (1991-2015), il a été astrophysicien au Space Telescope Science Institute, qui exploite le télescope spatial Hubble. Il a publié plus de 400 articles scientifiques sur des sujets tels que la cosmologie, les explosions de supernova, les trous noirs, les planètes extrasolaires et l'émergence de la vie dans l'univers.[1] Son livre sur le nombre irrationnel phi, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (2002), a remporté le prix Peano et le prix international Pythagore pour les livres populaires sur les mathématiques.

The equation that couldn't be solved pdf par Mario Livio

The equation that couldn't be solved: How mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry. 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 thousands of years mathematicians solved progressively more difficult algebraic equations, until they encountered the quintic equation, which resisted solution for three centuries. Working independently, two great prodigies ultimately proved that the quintic cannot be solved by a simple formula. These geniuses, a Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel and a romantic Frenchman named Evariste 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 beautifully written and dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest and most intriguing mathematicians in history.