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Simon & Schuster, September 2006
Trade Paperback, 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0743258215
ISBN-13: 9780743258210
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Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
1. Symmetry
2. eyE s'dniM eht ni yrtemmyS
3. Never Forget This in the Midst of Your Equations
4. The Poverty-Stricken Mathematician
5. The Romantic Mathematician
6. Groups
7. Symmetry Rules
8. Who's the Most Symmetrical of Them All?
9. Requiem for a Romantic Genius
Appendix 1. Card Puzzle
Appendix 2. Solving a System of Two Linear Equations
Appendix 3. Diophantus's Solution
Appendix 4. A Diophantine Equation
Appendix 5. Tartaglia's Verses and Formula
Appendix 6. Adriaan van Roomen's Challenge
Appendix 7. Properties of the Roots of Quadratic Equations
Appendix 8. The Galois Family Tree
Appendix 9. The 14-15 Puzzle
Appendix 10. Solution to the Matches Problem
Notes
References
Index
Next: Chapter 1
