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Abel's proof [electronic resource] : an essay on the sources and meaning of mathematical unsolvability / Peter Pesic.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262281478
  • 0262281473
  • 0585482667
  • 9780585482668
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Abel's proof.DDC classification:
  • 512.9/4 22
LOC classification:
  • QA212 .P47 2003eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

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