by Mario Livio · Editorial Ariel · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434453241
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«La ecuación jamás resuelta» is the popular science essay by Mario Livio, published by Editorial Ariel in hardback, with 400 pages in Spanish.
The book starts from the impossibility of solving the fifth-degree equation to tell how mathematicians Henrik Abel and Évariste Galois created the language of symmetry. Livio interweaves their lives with the presence of symmetry in music, physics, art, and nature.
First volume of the Ariel collection. Translation by Blanca Ribera de Madariaga; original English version: 'The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved'.
For the general public interested in the history of science and mathematics; no specialized training required.
Mario Livio is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope.
