The Golden Section - Couverture souple

Walser, Hans

 
9780883855348: The Golden Section

Synopsis

The Golden Section has played a part since antiquity in many parts of geometry, architecture, music, art and philosophy. However, it also appears in the newer domains of technology and fractals. In this way, the Golden Section is no isolated phenomenon but rather, in many cases. the first and also the simplest non-trivial example in the context of generalisations leading to further developments. It is the purpose of this book, on the one hand, to describe examples of the Golden Section, and on the other, to show some paths to further extensions. The treatment is informal and the text is enriched by the presence of very illuminating diagrams. Questions are posed at fairly frequent intervals and the answers to these questions, perhaps only in the form of very broad hints for their solution, are gathered together at the end of the text.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hans Walser is a teacher at the State College of Thurgau in Switzerland and lecturer at the ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of technology) and the University of Basel. He received his PhD from the ETH Zürich in 1975. His primary research interest is in geometry. He is currently involved in the instruction and education of future high school teachers. He was a visitor at Santa Clara University in 1996 and 1998. The MAA has also published the English translation of Symmetry, by Hans Walser.

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