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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

Mario Livio

Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry in nature and the arts, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick Abel and Evariste Galois to solve the quintic equation and give birth to group theory. By the author of The Golden Ratio....

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On Being with Krista Tippett

The book explored group theory, a mathematical concept that describes symmetry, demonstrating how symmetry is found in art, nature, and science. It illustrated the aesthetic connections between mathematics and other aspects of the human experience.

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And I would like to talk about though, it's the group theory, the language of symmetry, which is something else you've worked on in your book, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, which does t...

— Episode: [Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippe...

Episode: [Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett

The book explored group theory, a mathematical concept that describes symmetry, demonstrating how symmetry is found in art, nature, and science. It illustrated the aesthetic connections between mathematics and other aspects of the human experience.

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And I would like to talk about though, it's the group theory, the language of symmetry, which is something else you've worked on in your book, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, which does tease out an aesthetic connection between mathematics and art and nature.

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