The Golden Ratio The Story of Phi, the Extra Ordinary [i.e. Extraordinary] Number of Nature, Art and Beauty
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The Golden Ratio The Story of Phi, the Extra Ordinary [i.e. Extraordinary] Number of Nature, Art and Beauty

by Mario Livio

Publisher
Review
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2003

Overview

What do sunflowers, Salvador Dali's painting 'Sacrament of the Last Supper' and the spiral shells of molluscs have in common? The answer is that they share a geometrical proportion of ancient origin, commonly known as the 'Golden Ratio', or expressed numerically as phi.

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