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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the inexplicable relationship between quantities and the nature of reality. In such a fascinating book, Mario Livio instructs the story of a number in the centre of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887.... This curious numerical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio", was found out by Euclid more than 2,000 years ago because of its critical role in the construction of the pentagram, to which enchanting properties had been attributed. Since then it shows a propensity to appear in the most amazing variety of places, from mollusk shells, sunflower florets, and increased petals to the shape of the galaxy. Psychological studies have investigated whether the Golden Percentage is the most visually pleasing percentage extant, and it has been asserted that the designers of the Pyramids and the Parthenon hired it. It really is thought to feature in works of art from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Salvador Dali's The Sacrament of the Last Supper, and poets and composers have used it in their works. It offers even been found to be connected to the action of the currency markets! The Golden Percentage is a fascinating journey through skill and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics. It instructs the human tale of numerous phi-fixated individuals, like the enthusiasts of Pythagoras who presumed that this percentage revealed the hands of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who found phi as the greatest treasure of geometry; such Renaissance thinkers as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world as Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok, and physicist Roger Penrose. Wherever his quest for this is of phi can take him, Mario Livio reveals the entire world as a place where order, beauty, and eternal mystery will usually coexist.
