The Golden Section (Spectrum) - Softcover

Hans Walser

9780883855348: The Golden Section (Spectrum)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883855348 ISBN 13: 9780883855348

Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America, 2001

The Golden Section has played a part since antiquity in many parts of geometry, architecture, music, art and philosophy. However, it also appears in the newer domains of technology and fractals. In this way, the Golden Section is no isolated phenomenon but rather, in many cases. the first and also the simplest non-trivial example in the context of generalisations leading to further developments. It is the purpose of this book, on the one hand, to describe examples of the Golden Section, and on the other, to show some paths to further extensions. The treatment is informal and the text is enriched by the presence of very illuminating diagrams. Questions are posed at fairly frequent intervals and the answers to these questions, perhaps only in the form of very broad hints for their solution, are gathered together at the end of the text.

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About the Author:

Hans, Walser is a teacher at the State College of Thurgau in Switzerland and lecturer at the ETH Z�rich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and the University of Basel. He received his Ph.D from the ETH Z�rich in 1975. His primary research interest is in geometry. He is currently involved in the instruction and education of future high school teachers. He was a visiting guest and lecturer at Santa Clara University in 1996 and 1998. The Mathematical Association of America has also published the English translation of "Symmetry," by Hans Walser.

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