Experiences

The impossible equation

F. G. O.

Italy

Vocational School

Maths

Teaching in class, Extracurricular activity

Success

The subject of mathematics that most interested me was the one of the equations, because the story that lies behind it is very interesting, because the equations, unlike some mathematical topics, found a wide application in many fields. I was impressed because I read a book that deals with equations, the "Impossible Equation" by Mario Livio, which runs through the entire history of the equations, from the Babylonians to Abel and Galois, two great mathematicians in between the '700 and 800 that have ventured into the impossible solution of the equation, an equation of degree higher than the fourth. The fact that it is impossible to solve an equation of degree higher than the fourth makes me reflect on the fact that mathematics is an infinite and mysterious world that man has never been able to dominate because it is a world that does not create man with its rules, but has its own life and its own laws of existence.