About the Poster

Solving the Quintic with Mathematica, by Wolfram Research, Inc., published by Wolfram Research, Inc., Champaign, Illinois, 1994. Created for the International Congress of Mathematicians, Zürich, 1994. Poster source material and bibliography are available on MathSource, item number 0207-122.

This poster was developed by the mathematics research and development group at Wolfram Research. Primary poster material by Victor Adamchik and Michael Trott. Design by John Bonadies and Jennifer Lofgren. Text and equation editing by George Beck and Theodore Gray. Library work by Jean Buck and Denise Ice (with help from the Mathematics Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Poster concept by George Beck and Stephen Wolfram.

All computations, graphics, and typesetting for mathematical equations on this poster were done with Mathematica. Mathematica is used worldwide by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, students, and others. MathSource is a collection of Mathematica material accessible via the internet on the web and periodically available on CD-ROM.

Biographies of mathematicians are from the History of Mathematics archive at the University of St. Andrews, and are used with permission.

Photo of James Cockle by permission of the President and Council of the Royal Society.