The Golden Ratio: the Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number 9780767908160, 9780307485526, 0767908163, 0307485528

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between number

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Prelude to a number --
The pitch and the pentagram --
Under a star-Y-pointing pyramid? --
The second treasure --
Son of good nature --
The divine proportion --
Painters and poets have equal license --
From the tiles to the heavens --
Is God a mathematician?

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