Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry - Group theory and the failed revolutionary

Group theory and the failed revolutionary

05/16/07 • -1 min

Why Beauty is Truth - A short history of symmetry

Professor Ian Stewart talks about the life of Evariste Galois the failed revolutionary who developed Group Theory and changed the way we think about mathematics, physics and the world around us.

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