Abel's proof : an essay on the sources and meaning of mathematical unsolvability / Peter Pesic.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge (Mass.) : The MIT press, 2003.
Descrizione fisica:
VIII, 213 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. 1. The scandal of the irrational 2. Controversy and coefficients 3. Impossibilities and imaginaries 4. Spirals and seashores 5. Premonitions and permutations 6. Abel's proof 7. Abel and Galois 8. Seeing symmetries 9. The order of things 10. Solving the unsolvable. Appendix A: Abel's 1824 paper. Appendix B: Abel on the general form of an algebraic solution. Appendix C: Cauchy's theorem on permutations. Notes. Acknowledgements. Index
