the other one is a smaller golden rectangle. There’s been a miasma of mysticism around the golden ratio for a long time. The number theorist George Ballard Mathews was already complaining about ...

The Fibonacci Series, a set of numbers that increases rapidly, began as a medieval math joke about how fast rabbits breed. But it’s became a source of insight into art, architecture, nature, and ...

In plain English: if you have two objects (or a single object that can be split into two objects, like the golden rectangle), and if, after you do the math above, you get the number 1.6180 ...

with the ratio of the sides of the rectangle actually being the golden ratio! I have been obsessed with this number since I heard about it in high school, and it is the reason why I became so ...

There are studies showing that the ratio between any two successive larger Fibonacci numbers is 1 to 1.618—the same as the ratio between the sides of the “golden rectangle,” a form that is ...

phi,” where phi is an irrational number, roughly 1.618. Visually, this ratio can be represented as the “golden rectangle,” with the ratio of side a to side b the same as the ratio of the ...

The golden ratio is the only number whose square can be produced simply by adding 1 and whose reciprocal by subtracting 1. If you take a golden rectangle — one whose length-to-breadth is in the ...

[THEME MUSIC] This is the golden ratio ... OK, now keep incrementing the number of medium pieces or squares in the rectangle picture while always requiring that big over medium equal medium ...

Leonardo Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician with a penchant for decimalization and rabbits! Having introduced the numbers 0 to 9 to Europe (like some medieval Big Bird from Sesame Street), he ...