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The Golden Ratio

The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

by Mario Livio

2002 294 pages eng ★ 3.3 (3 ratings)

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relatio…

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