The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty by H. E. Huntley, Huntley

The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty



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The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty. In this essay I will be “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.” Aristotle. I got inspiration to do the sculptures after reading The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty by H.E. Discussion ranges from theories of biological growth to intervals and tones in music, Pythagorean numerology, conic sections, Pascal's triangle, the Fibonnacci series, and much more. Above is the Fibonacci spiral which I used as a template. Tutankhamun's tomb and every pretty human face have something in common: their beauty is by no means incidental, but structured by a mathematical rule. Try for yourself at anaface.com. You evaluate Golden Ratio beauty by measuring the proportions of an object or person and determining mathematically how close the ratio is to the Golden Ratio. €�Leonardo's famous drawings of the Vitruvian proportions of a man's body first standing inscribed in a square and then with feet and arms outspread inscribed in a circle provides an excellent early example of the way in which his studies of proportion fuse artistic and scientific objectives. W., The Study of Mathematics, in Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays, chapter. Even before Leonardo da Vinci could get out his pen to draw his study of the human body, the Egyptians built their pyramids and temples according to the divine proportion (also called golden ratio or golden section). (also known among other names as the Divine Ratio, the Golden Rectangle, the Golden Section, the Golden Mean, the Fibonacci Numbers, …) Foreword.

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