The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number - Softcover

Livio, Mario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767908163 ISBN 13: 9780767908160

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2003

Synopsis

Title: The Golden Ratio( The Story of Phi the World's Most Astonishing Number) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: MarioLivio <>Publisher: BroadwayBooks

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Review:

"[An] entertaining review of the history of mathematics . . . A nice mental workout." -- Linda Schlossberg, San Francisco Chronicle

"Engagingly enthusiastic . . . It's hard not to feel inspired and even unsettled by the hidden order Livio reveals." -- New Scientist

"Numbers aficionados will delight in astrophysicist Livio's history of an irrational number whose fame is second only to that of pi. . . . Livio's encyclopedic selection of subjects, supported by dozens of illustrations, will snare anyone with a recreational interest in mathematics." -- Booklist

About the Author:

Mario Livio is head of the Science Division at the Hubble Space Telescope Institute, where he studies a broad range of subjects in astrophysics, particularly the rate of expansion of the universe. He is the author of one previous book, The Accelerating Universe (2000). He is a frequent public lecturer at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution and the Hayden Planetarium. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0767908163
• ISBN 13: 9780767908160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304