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# The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret (Wooden Books, 18) Hardcover – October 17, 2006

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    Thoughtful Numerology
  

*by R***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2007*

One of the most famous and mysterious of numbers is pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.  If you know some mathematics and work with logarithms, you know another important constant, e.  Less well known is the number phi (the Greek symbol looks like a capital I superimposed on an o); it is in many ways simpler than the other two and is just as interesting.  All you have to do is take a line segment of any length, and put a point on the line so that the point divides the line into a big segment and a little one, and so that the little segment is to the big segment as the big segment is to the line you started with.  The section you made, and the connected mathematics and art, are described and illustrated in _The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret_ (Walker Books) by Scott Olsen, which ought to get an award for the book with the greatest density of information in the smallest package.  It has but 58 small pages, and half of those are taken up with illustrations (which are wonderfully selected ).  But if you follow the pages, and have pencil, paper, and a calculator beside you, there are depths here that bigger books never touch.It's not too interesting to put a point directly in the middle of a line.  You get equal segments that way, or a ratio of one to one, or 1:1; and if a segment is 1, the whole line you bisected is 2, a ratio of 2:1.  Plato knew, though, that that was one point that would divide the whole line into shorter and longer portions so that "the whole to the longer equals the longer to the shorter"; or if shorter is a, longer is b, and the whole is a + b, then a + b is to b as b is to a; in symbols, a + b : b as b : a, or a + b : b : a.  The ratio is phi (pronounced "fye").  It's numerical equivalent is 1.6180339... (the ellipsis indicating its never-ending nature).  There are plenty of surprising properties of this number, some of which you can find on your calculator.  For instance, divide phi into one, and you get 0.6180339..., which is exactly one less than phi itself.  If you square phi, you get 2.6180339..., which is exactly one more than phi itself.  Phi shows up closely related to the Fibonacci Sequence, a series of numbers that shows up all over nature.  Rectangles based on phi show up in architecture and art and even music."Because of its aesthetic qualities, embodied in its unique ability to relate the parts to the whole," writes Olsen, "golden ratios are used in the design of many modern household items."  Credit cards, for instance, are very close to the 8 by 5 Fibonacci approximation of phi.  Surely no one ever designed the first credit cards to reflect phi, but the ratio does seem to be inherently attractive.  Olsen demonstrates that phi shows up in spirals of DNA, in human proportions, in icosahedrons, and so many other places.  His handsome and accessible book is an exercise in an appealing numerology.

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    Life proportion
  

*by R***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2021*

The author explain the basic of the Golden Section and the various areas where it can be found in nature, architecture, music, planet movements, geometry, etc. A small book to recall us of the classic that was forgotten in today world. The edition (Kindle) is poor with several small annoyances. Buy the print edition if possible.

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    Primer book for phi and Sacred Geometry
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2010*

I loved this little book and also bought a copy for my dad, who's read about 5 books on pi and didn't have a clue about phi. There's a saying, "Phi is an H of a lot cooler than pi," and I believe it. This crazy number, the Golden Ratio, is so intertwined throughout the universe, in nature, in mathematics, in everything, that I can't see why my math teachers didn't mention this to me back in high school. The author does a great job at presenting it in small bites to those who haven't seen much on phi before. Plus, I love the little artworks on each page that accompany the lessons. This book probably wouldn't add much for someone already well-versed on phi, but for a moderate or newcomer it's terrific. It's also a perfect bathroom book, since you can immerse yourself for about 300 words and then contemplate that for a day.

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