The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

The golden ratio: the story of phi, the

The golden ratio: the story of phi, the world's most astonishing number

✍ Livio, Mario 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Brilliance Audio ℗2013 🌐 English ⚖ 54 B 👁 1 views

Offers a look at phi, or "the golden ratio," discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago, examining the meaning of this remarkable mathematical proportion in terms of science, biology, philosophy, and other fields.

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

✍ Livio, Mario 📂 Fiction 📅 2003 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: *phi*, or 1.6180339887...This curious

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

✍ Livio, Mario 📂 Fiction 📅 2003 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

### From Publishers Weekly Most readers will have at least dim memories from geometry class of the irrational number pi. Theoretical astrophysicist Livio gives pi's overlooked cousin phi its due with this lively account, the first on the subject written for the layperson. Phi is the golden ratio of

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

✍ Livio, Mario 📂 Fiction 📅 2003 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: *phi*, or 1.6180339887...This curious

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

✍ Livio, Mario 📂 Fiction 📅 2003 🏛 New York : Broadway Books, 2003. 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

### From Publishers Weekly Most readers will have at least dim memories from geometry class of the irrational number pi. Theoretical astrophysicist Livio gives pi's overlooked cousin phi its due with this lively account, the first on the subject written for the layperson. Phi is the golden ratio of

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

✍ Livio, Mario 📂 Fiction 📅 2003 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

### From Publishers Weekly Most readers will have at least dim memories from geometry class of the irrational number pi. Theoretical astrophysicist Livio gives pi's overlooked cousin phi its due with this lively account, the first on the subject written for the layperson. Phi is the golden ratio of