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Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician
is said to have discovered the "golden ratio" which is used to determine
the golden rectangle. Many famous artists, architects, and musicians
have discovered the beauty of the golden ratio! The golden ratio has
been of interest people throughout history! During this project, discover what makes this ratio so "golden".
There are many things related to the golden ratio. These include:
- the golden rectangle
- the golden section
- Fibonacci numbers
- Kepler triangle
- (Golden) Sublime isosceles triangle
Download these files and save them
in your directory for easy access as you complete your project:
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Applications |
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section
Activities with the Golden Ratio
Chris and Scott's Website on the Golden Ratio - note:
this takes a while to load |
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Nature |
Fibonacci Numbers and Nature
The Golden Section in Nature and much more!
The Fibonacci
Numbers, Pineapples, Sunflowers and The Golden Mean |
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Music |
Music &
Fibonacci Numbers
Did
Mozart Use the Golden Section?
Music and the Golden Ratio |
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Architecture |
The golden ratio & squaring the circle in the Great Pyramid
Architecture and the Golden Ratio note: this
takes a while to load |
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Art |
Art and the Golden Ratio |
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* The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
(The Virtual Laboratory) by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (Author), Aristid
Lindenmayer (Author)
* The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells (Virtual Laboratory) by Hans Meinhardt (Author), Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (Author), Deborah R. Fowler
(Author)
* The Curves of Life (Dover Books Explaining Science) by Theodore A. Cook
(Author)
* On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition by D'Arcy Wentworth
Thompson (Author)
* The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by Mario Livio (Author)
* The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers by R. A. Dunlap (Author)
* The Divine Proportion by H. E. Huntley
* The Golden Section (Spectrum) by Hans Walser, Jean Pedersen, and Peter
Hilton
* Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the
Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry by Renna Shesso
* The Return of Sacred Architecture: The Golden Ratio and the End of
Modernism by Herbert Bangs
* Fib and Phi in Music: The Golden Proportion Musical Form (Inmusic) by
Charles Madden
* Cardinal Alignments and the Golden Section: Principles of Ancient
Cosmography and Design by Leif Sahlqvist
* Mathematics appreciation: Ten complete enrichment lessons : the golden
rectangle & the equiangular spiral (Unknown Binding) by Theoni Pappas
(Author)
* Golden mean rectangle: A three-dimensional interpretation by Robert C
Smith (Unknown Binding - 1994)
* Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition by Kimberly
Elam
* Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers with Applications by Thomas Koshy
* Architecture: Form, Space, & Order by Francis D. K. Ching
* The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and
Architecture (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Gyorgy Doczi
* Architecture Theory since 1968 by K. Michael Hays
* Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, And Meaning (Icon
Editions) by Leland M. Roth
* Classical Architecture for the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction to
Design by J. Francois Gabriel
* The Architecture of the Classical Interior by Steven W. Semes |
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