The Golden Ratio The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number~tqw~ darksiderg

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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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The Golden Ratio is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany
and biology, physics and mathematics. It tells the human story of numerous phi-
fixated individuals, including the followers of Pythagoras who believed that
this proportion revealed the hand of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who saw
phi as the greatest treasure of geometry; such Renaissance thinkers as
mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world
as Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok, and physicist RogerPenrose. Wherever his quest for
the meaning of phi takes him, Mario Livio reveals the world as a place where
order, beauty, and eternal mystery will always coexist.
Table Of Contents
PREFACE vii
1. PRELUDE TO A NUMBER 1
2. THE PITCH AND THE PENTAGRAM 12
3. UNDER A STAR-Y-POINTING PYRAMID? 42
4. THE SECOND TREASURE 62
5. SON OF GOOD NATURE 92
6. THE DIVINE PROPORTION 124
7. PAINTERS AND POETS HAVE EQUAL LICENSE 159
8. FROM THE TILES TO THE HEAVENS 201
9. IS GOD A MATHEMATICIAN? 229
APPENDICES 255
FURTHER READING 269
INDEX 279
CREDITS 291
Product Details
* ISBN: 0767908163
* ISBN-13: 9780767908160
* Format: Paperback, 294pp
* Publisher: Broadway Books
* Pub. Date: September 2003
* Edition Description: First Paperback Edition
* Edition Number: 1
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