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