Back in 1855, German psychologist Adolf Zeising published a book with a ridiculously long title called: A New Theory of the proportions of the human body, developed from a basic morphological law ...
The Golden Ratio (GR), often denoted by the Greek letter phi (Φ), is a mathematical ratio commonly found in nature, art, and architecture. This irrational number, approximately equal to 1.618, has ...
The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is far from ...