By Jay Kappraff
This ebook comprises essays that stand on their lonesome yet also are loosely attached. half I records how numbers and geometry come up in numerous cultural contexts and in nature: the traditional musical scale, share in structure, historical geometry, megalithic stone circles, the hidden pavements of the Laurentian library, the shapes of the Hebrew letters, and the shapes of organic kinds. the focal point is on how sure numbers, comparable to the golden and silver ability, current themselves inside of those platforms. half II exhibits what number of a similar numbers and quantity sequences are regarding the fashionable mathematical learn of numbers, dynamical platforms, chaos, and fractals.
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