The Golden Ratio : The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)

from melydia

If you divide a line so that the ratio of the smaller to the larger is equal to the ratio of the larger to the whole, you have the golden ratio, phi. There has been an abundance of literature on the presence of phi in a number of unexpected locations, and this book addresses many of these appeara...

from melydia

If you divide a line so that the ratio of the smaller to the larger is equal to the ratio of the larger to the whole, you have the golden ratio, phi. There has been an abundance of literature on the presence of phi in a number of unexpected locations, and this book addresses many of these appeara...

from DanielAlgara

This was a great read, even for a math idiot like myself.

from jefware

The Golden Ratio dwells lovingly on each pearl in the necklace that is Phi.

from themulhern

To write a whole book about the number zero requires a good deal of imagination and random association. That does not seem to be the case for the golden ratio. I've only gotten as far as Chapter 5, but there has been a good deal of interesting material presented. Chapter 2 introduces the Pythagor...