This book offers a stimulating exposition of Felix Klein's proof of Kronecker's Theorem and his classical development of icosahedral geometry to solve the quintic equation. It also synthesizes Klein's ideas with dynamics to solve the quintic by iteration in text form.
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Höhe: 247 mm
Breite: 191 mm
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978-0-471-13017-8 (9780471130178)
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JERRY SHURMAN received his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 1988 and is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Reed College, Portland, Oregon.
The complex sphere; finite automorphism groups of the sphere; invariant functions; inverses of the invariant functions.
