The Fibonacci Resonance and other new Golden Ratio discoveries: Maths, music, archaeology, architecture, art, quasicrystals, metamaterials, ... - Hardcover

by Clive N. Menhinick (Author)

A new and definitive reference for the Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Ratio. With Mondrian, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tiwanaku, The Great Pyramid, Le Corbusier, Kepler, Penrose, quasicrystals, Pendry, green energy, and the latest light-based technologies, this maths and science book is written to be enjoyed. Explore Bohemian Paris - the capital of phi - in fresh analyses of art, architecture, and music. Lavishly illustrated, this book includes: the history of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, spirals, sunflowers, pine cones, megaliths, and ornamental tilings. The Fibonacci Resonance discovery is revealed step by step from unique beginnings to abacus-bead visualizations. Comparisons are made with Silver Ratio Pell numbers, and a link is shown to perfect numbers and record-breaking Mersenne primes.