Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability
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The intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics.
Introduction11The Scandal of the Irrational52Controversy and Coefficients233Impossibilities and Imaginaries474Spirals and Seashores595Premonitions and Permutations736Abel's Proof857Abel and Galois958Seeing Symmetries1119The Order of Things13110Solving the Unsolvable145App. AAbel's 1824 Paper155App. BAbel on the General Form of an Algebraic Solution171App. CCauchy's Theorem on Permutations175Notes181Acknowledgments203Index205
