The Golden Ratio
Subtitle: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Publisher: Broadway
Published: September 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780767908160
Subjects: Research; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Geometry - General; History & Philosophy; Mathematics / Research; Golden section; Plane geometry; Ratio and proportion
First sentence: The famous British physicist Lord Kelvin (William Thomson; 1824-1907), after whom the degrees in the absolute temperature scale are named, once said in a lecture: "When you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind."