THE romantic figure at the heart of Mario Livio's fascinating book about mathematical equations and symmetry is a brilliant Frenchman, Evariste Galois, who died in 1832 at the age of only 20. Galois's ...
THE roots of algebra, as John Derbyshire tells us, go back to the ancient world: the Babylonians left cuneiform tablets showing simple algebraic problems. Its actual birth is usually credited to ...
The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...
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