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The Golden Ratio The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty
by Mario Livio
- Publisher
- Review
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
Overview
What do the Parthenon in Greece, crosses in graveyards, the ratio of the height of the navel to a woman's total height, sunflowers and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa have in common? The answer is that these disparate elements share a geometrical proportion of ancient origin, commonly known as the Golden Ratio, or expressed numerically as phi.
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