Geometry of the Quintic

Download or read book Geometry of the Quintic written by Jerry Michael Shurman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-01-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps students at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate levels to develop connections between the algebra, geometry, and analysis that they know, and to better appreciate the totality of what they have learned. The text demonstrates the use of general concepts by applying theorems from various areas in the context of one problem - solving the quintic. The problem is approached from two directions: the first is Felix Klein's nineteenth-century approach, using the icosahedron. The second approach presents recent works of Peter Doyle and Curt McMullen, which update Klein's use of transcendental functions to a solution through pure iteration.