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

Main Author: Pesic, Peter.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
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Table of 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.