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The Golden Ratio : The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
The Golden Ratio The Story of PHI the World's Most Astonishing Number
Author: Mario Livio
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 mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780767908160
ISBN-10: 0767908163
Publication Date: 9/23/2003
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Broadway
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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"Mario Livio's The Golden Ratio provides a wonderful spriingboard to the amazing world or mathematics and its relationship to the physical world, as viewed from ancient to modern times." -- Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University.
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