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The Golden Ratio

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

The Golden Ratio( )
Author: Livio, Mario
ISBN:978-0-7679-0815-3
Publication Date:Oct 2002
Publisher:Broadway Books
Imprint:Broadway
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

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," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Mathematics / Geometry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.63 x 9.36 Inches
Book Weight:1.231 Pounds
Author Biography
Livio, Mario (Author)
Mario Livio was born in 1945 in Romania. When he was 5 years old, he immigrated with his grandparents to Israel. He received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a M.Sc. degree in theoretical particle physics at the Weizmann Institute, and a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics at Tel-Aviv University. He was a professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology from 1981 until 1991. He is a senior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute.

He has published over 400 scientific papers. He has also written several books including The Accelerating Universe, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, Is God a Mathematician?, and Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe. The Golden Ratio received the International Pythagoras Prize and the Peano Prize.

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