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Volume 91 | Number 5 | September-October 2003

Impossibilities

In Abel's Proof, Peter Pesic sets out to tell the story of algebraic equations and to explain the unsolvability of the quintic

Beauty Without Cause: An Excerpt from An Obsession with Butterflies

In Snowball Earth Gabrielle Walker describes in dramatic fashion a hotly contested theory in earth science, sneaking lots of geological detail into her account of trotting the globe on field excursions with experts.

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