Golden Ratio
Subtitle: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9781417616701
Subjects: Geometry - General; History & Philosophy; Research; Mathematics
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."