9780817648367-0817648364-Beyond the Quartic Equation (Modern Birkhäuser Classics)

Beyond the Quartic Equation (Modern Birkhäuser Classics)

ISBN-13: 9780817648367
ISBN-10: 0817648364
Edition: 1st ed. 1996. 2nd printing 2008
Author: R. Bruce King
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Format: Paperback 158 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780817648367
ISBN-10: 0817648364
Edition: 1st ed. 1996. 2nd printing 2008
Author: R. Bruce King
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Format: Paperback 158 pages

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Beyond the Quartic Equation (Modern Birkhäuser Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780817648367 and ISBN-10: 0817648364), written by authors R. Bruce King, was published by Birkhäuser in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Pure Mathematics (Mathematics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Beyond the Quartic Equation (Modern Birkhäuser Classics) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Pure Mathematics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The objective of this book is to present for the first time the complete algorithm for roots of the general quintic equation with enough background information to make the key ideas accessible to non-specialists and even to mathematically oriented readers who are not professional mathematicians. The book includes an initial introductory chapter on group theory and symmetry, Galois theory and Tschirnhausen transformations, and some elementary properties of elliptic function in order to make some of the key ideas more accessible to less sophisticated readers. The book also includes a discussion of the much simpler algorithms for roots of the general quadratic, cubic, and quartic equations before discussing the algorithm for the roots of the general quintic equation. A brief discussion of algorithms for roots of general equations of degrees higher than five is also included.

"If you want something truly unusual, try [this book] by R. Bruce King, which revives some fascinating, long-lost ideas relating elliptic functions to polynomial equations."

--New Scientist

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