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Author Pesic, Peter.

Title Abel's proof : an essay on the sources and meaning of mathematical unsolvability / Peter Pesic.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
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.
Subject Abel, Niels Henrik, 1802-1829.
Abel, Niels Henrik, 1802-1829. (OCoLC)fst00135463
Equations, Roots of.
MATHEMATICS -- Algebra -- Elementary.
Equations, Roots of. (OCoLC)fst00914511
Vergelijkingen (wiskunde) (NL-LeOCL)078940338
Other Form: Print version: Pesic, Peter. Abel's proof. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003 0262162164 (DLC) 2002031991 (OCoLC)50440844
ISBN 9780262281478 (electronic bk.)
0262281473 (electronic bk.)
0585482667 (electronic bk.)
9780585482668 (electronic bk.)
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