§7.1 I HAVE DESCRIBED HOW SOLUTIONS to the general cubic and quartic equations were found by Italian mathematicians in the first half of the 16th century. The next obvious challenge was the general ...
THE romantic figure at the heart of Mario Livio's fascinating book about mathematical equations and symmetry is a brilliant Frenchman, Evariste Galois, who died in 1832 at the age of only 20. Galois's ...
§CQ.1 THE FIRST GREAT ADVANCE in algebra after the Middle Ages was the general solution of the cubic equation, immediately followed by a solution for the quartic. I tell the full story in the next ...
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