The Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a number used in mathematics‚ art‚ architecture‚ nature‚ and architecture. Also known as‚ the divine proportion‚ golden mean‚ or golden section it expresses the relationship that the sum of two quantities is to the larger quantity as is the larger is to the smaller. It is also a number often encountered when taking the ratios of differences in different geometric figures. Represented mathematically as approximately 1.618033989‚ and by the Greek letter Phi
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David Ratliffe 11/12/09 Mrs. Wolfe 4th Biology The golden eagle [pic] The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles‚ it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic‚ it has disappeared from many of the more heavily Populated areas. Despite being locally extinct or uncommon‚ the species is still fairly ubiquitous
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The Golden Girls I am going to be writing about the lifetime television show‚ " The Golden Girls". There are many different episodes and I have probably seen them all‚ at least twice. I first started watching the show with my mom. My curfew when I was in high school was 11:00 or 11:30. While I was going into detail about the many things that had happened that night‚ "The Golden Girls" would be on. At first I did not enjoy them‚ but as I got to know the characters I was addicted. First
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What is the Golden Ratio The golden ration can occur anywhere. The golden proportion is the ratio of the shorter length to the longer length which equals the ratio of the longer length to the sum of both lengths. The golden ratio is a term used to describe proportioning in a piece. In a work of art or architecture‚ if one maintained a ratio of small elements to larger elements that was the same as the ratio of larger elements to the whole‚ the end result was pleasing to the eye. The ratio
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The Golden Ratio Body‚ art‚ music‚ architecture‚ nature – all connected by a simple irrational number – the Golden Ratio. According to Posamentier & Lehmann in their work The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers‚ there is reason to believe that the letter φ (phi) was used because it is the first letter of the name of the celebrated Greek sculptor Phidias (490-430 BCE). He produced the famous statue of Zeus in the Temple of Olympia and supervised the construction of the Parthenon in Athens
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GOLDEN MEAN It all started from this very smart man named Leonardo Bonacci‚ also known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci was a very important mathematician in Europe; he is believed to be the first. He learned with Arabic mathematicians and had an Arabic learning background to math. Fibonacci had this idea of counting how many rabbits are produced in a yearí ĉ. Fibonacci started with a pair of rabbits. The next month he had a new pair‚ as well the next one too. Fibonacci started working for a solution
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The History of Algebra and The Golden Ratio in Nature By: Lauren Pressley Introduction to Statistics Throughout history algebra has changed in words through etymology. Etymology is an account of the history of a particular word or elements of a word. The word “algebra” is derived from Arabic writers. Algebra is a method for finding solutions of equations to the simplest possible form. Different cultures have come up with different types
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The Highway to socio-economic development– the Golden Quadrilateral The Golden Quadrilateral is a network of highways connecting India’s top four metropolitan cities‚ namely Delhi‚ Mumbai‚ Chennai and Kolkata‚chennak thereby‚ forming a quadrilateral. The principal objective of India’s most vaunted highway project is to connect most of the major agricultural industrial and cultural centers of India. Some of the more important centers being (Karnataka)‚ Chennai (Tamil Nadu)‚ Visakhapatnam (Andhra
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13th‚ 2011 English 1 honors The Quest of the Golden Fleece Betrayal can be dishonesty‚ deception‚ or disloyalty. There is much disloyalty between Medea‚ a Colchian princess‚ and her family which is the effect of her passionate love for Jason‚ a man sent on a quest to get the Golden Fleece to receive his rights as King. Jason‚ himself also shows much betrayal towards Medea even after all she’s done for him. The story of “The Quest of the Golden Fleece”‚ exemplifies much betrayal on many levels
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properties‚ called the golden ratio”(Livio‚ 2007). This can be located in thousands of natural and manmade objects‚ and is believed to hold the key to the secret of beauty. Still‚ no one knows who first discovered the golden ratio‚ but it is known that the Egyptians used it in the creation of the Great Pyramids at Giza. In addition‚ Phidias applied the golden ratio to the design of the Parthenon (Livio‚ 2007). These two marvelous structures were the first known cases of where the golden ratio had been used
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