Fearless Symmetry av Avner Ash, Robert Gross

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<p>Mathematicians solve equations, or try to. But sometimes the solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to them. Written in a friendly style for a general audience, <i>Fearless Symmetry</i> is the first popular math book to discuss these elegant and mysterious patterns and the ingenious techniques mathematicians use to uncover them.<br><br><br> Hidden symmetries were first discovered nearly two hundred years ago by French mathematician ¿riste Galois. They have been used extensively in the oldest and largest branch of mathematics--number theory--for such diverse applications as acoustics, radar, and codes and ciphers. They have also been employed in the study of Fibonacci numbers and to attack well-known problems such as Fermat''s Last Theorem, Pythagorean Triples, and the ever-elusive Riemann Hypothesis. Mathematicians are still devising techniques for teasing out these mysterious patterns, and their uses are limited only by the imagination.<br><b