The Golden Ratio
Subtitle: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Broadway
Published: October 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780767908153
Subjects: Calculus & mathematical analysis; Research; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Geometry - General; Mathematics / Research; Mathematical Analysis; 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."