Part of the process of becoming a mathematics writer is, it appears, learning that you cannot refer to the golden ratio without following the first mention by a phrase that goes something like 'which the ancient Greeks and others believed to have divine and mystical properties | The Form of the Book, p |
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William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design: A Cross-Disciplinary Reference, Gloucester MA: Rockport Publishers, 2003• by Michael Schreiber, , 2007 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review |
1550—1631 publishes the first known approximation of the inverse golden ratio as a.
148 percent retracements of recent rises or declines are common," in Osler, Carol 2000 | The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive |
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" He interpreted this imaginatively, and in 1860, was the first of many authors to repeat his false claim | Walser, Hans 2001 [ Der Goldene Schnitt 1993] |
The golden ratio has fascinated Western intellectuals of diverse interests for at least 2,400 years.