Golden Ratio
Essays

Depending on perspective, Freemasons have either been a widely misunderstood group of people who have made invaluable contributions to American society, or a group of people whose primary goal is to destroy…

Modeling Real-World Data with Sinusoidal Functions

History Of Phi, Mathematical Connections, And Fibonacci Numbers: Nature's Golden Ratio

Elam, Kimberly. (2001). The Geometry of Design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

The idea that music is related to mathematics goes back to ancient times. In his Dialogues, Plato agreed with Pythagoras's assertion that harmonics and astronomy are sister sciences of mathematics.

The international foreign exchange market, or Forex, is among the largest financial markets in the world for trading foreign currencies but many traders have either never heard of it or are too unfamiliar with it to…

The concept of the Vitruvian Man has its origins not with Leonardo da Vinci, as many may belief, given the fact that his name is usually associated with the famous image of the Vitruvian Man, but with a Roman architect,…

If we think about it, design is all around us – in nature everywhere. It could be a leaf, a shell, or a flower. And each of these proportions are instinctively pleasurable for us, which is likely the reason why much of design and architecture is based on the very same principles of ratio, proportion, and structure. The basis for this design structure is the Golden Ratio, or 1:1.618. Since the Renaissance, this is the proportion that has been used by artists and architects to proportion their works for mass appeal. Fascinating, however, is just how many objects in nature follow this exact proportion: animal, plant, or object and even drawings of the human body from the Ancient Greeks to Leonardo da Vinci

¶ … people working out math constitutes a scientific exercise. Racking their brains on theorems, axioms, lemmas and propositions, math is means to an end, a set of procedures which can be used to make an analysis of the…

Modernist Architecture encumbers the soul with spiritual fatigue and frustration. Art is life and design is its blood. Transfuse society with architecture that reestablishes humanity's spiritual link with nature.