The Golden Section (Spectrum) - Softcover

Walser, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883855348 ISBN 13: 9780883855348

Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America, 2001

Synopsis

This book describes examples of the Golden Section, and shows some paths to further developments.

About this title

Book Description:

The Golden Section has played a part since antiquity in many parts of geometry, architecture, music, art and philosophy. However, it also appears in the newer domains of technology and fractals. This book aims both to describe examples of the Golden Section, and to show some paths to further developments.

Synopsis:

The Golden Section has played a part since antiquity in many parts of geometry, architecture, music, art and philosophy. However, it also appears in the newer domains of technology and fractals. In this way, the Golden Section is no isolated phenomenon but rather, in many cases. the first and also the simplest non-trivial example in the context of generalisations leading to further developments. It is the purpose of this book, on the one hand, to describe examples of the Golden Section, and on the other, to show some paths to further extensions. The treatment is informal and the text is enriched by the presence of very illuminating diagrams. Questions are posed at fairly frequent intervals and the answers to these questions, perhaps only in the form of very broad hints for their solution, are gathered together at the end of the text.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0883855348
• ISBN 13: 9780883855348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158