[PDF] The Golden Mean eBook

Author : Annabel Lyon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307594440

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A startlingly original first novel by “this generation’s answer to Alice Munro” (The Vancouver Sun)—a bold reimagining of one of history’s most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great. 342 BC: Aristotle is reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor Alexander, the rebellious son of his boyhood friend Philip of Macedon. But the philosopher soon comes to realize that teaching this charming, surprising, sometimes horrifying teenager—heir to the Macedonian throne, forced onto the battlefield before his time—is a necessity amid the ever more sinister intrigues of Philip’s court. Told in the brilliantly rendered voice of Aristotle—keenly intelligent, often darkly funny—The Golden Mean brings ancient Greece to vivid life via the story of this remarkable friendship between two towering figures, innovator and conqueror, whose views of the world still resonate today.

Author : Gary B. Meisner
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 076036026X

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This enlightening and gorgeously illustrated book explores the beauty and mystery of the divine proportion in art, architecture, nature, and beyond. From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties. Author Gary Meisner has spent decades researching the subject, investigating and collaborating with people across the globe in dozens of professions and walks of life. In The Golden Ratio, he shares his enlightening journey. Exploring the long history of this fascinating number, as well as new insights into its power and potential applications, The Golden Ratio invites you to take a new look at this timeless topic.

Author : Patrick E. Hallam
Publisher : P.E. Hallam
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Golden section
ISBN : 9780972742504

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A tracing of the history of the concept of the Golden Mean from its prehistoric beginnings through its use by ancient Egyptians and its analysis by the early Greeks. The book chronicles the Golden Mean's use in the Middle Ages and its eventual abandonment after the advent of the Industrial Revolution. The book then demonstrates how the 18th century master gunsmiths applied the Golden Mean and used its unseen, underlying patterns to develop the architectural design for their rifles. A significant idea is the focus on reviving the traditions of the craft and revealing the arts and mysteries of the trade as practiced by these early master gunsmiths of the Kentucky longrifle.

Author : Scott Olsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0802715397

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Tells the story of the golden section, a line segment divided into two parts such that the ratio of the short portion to the longer portion is equal to the ratio of the longer portion to the whole, and its impact on civilization and the natural world.

Author : Nick Bantock
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780877017882

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Don't miss The Pharos Gate, the final volume in the Griffin & Sabine story. Published simultaneously with the 25th-anniversary edition of Griffin & Sabine, the book finally shares what happened to the lovers. Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right—the wine glass has more impact than the cup. –Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.

Author : Alisa van de Haar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004408592

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Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both French and Dutch were spoken as local tongues.

Author : Richard A Dunlap
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 1997-12-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9814496944

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In this invaluable book, the basic mathematical properties of the golden ratio and its occurrence in the dimensions of two- and three-dimensional figures with fivefold symmetry are discussed. In addition, the generation of the Fibonacci series and generalized Fibonacci series and their relationship to the golden ratio are presented. These concepts are applied to algorithms for searching and function minimization. The Fibonacci sequence is viewed as a one-dimensional aperiodic, lattice and these ideas are extended to two- and three-dimensional Penrose tilings and the concept of incommensurate projections. The structural properties of aperiodic crystals and the growth of certain biological organisms are described in terms of Fibonacci sequences.

Author : Nancy Hillis
Publisher : Artist's Journey Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category :
ISBN : 9780999750438

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If you yearn to say yes to your deepest expression in your art and life, this self-help book is for you. Dr. Hillis guides you past resistance on your artist's journey so you can finally trust yourself, develop confidence and cultivate deep exploration and experimentation in your art. Bonus resource library with videos lessons and book club guide.

Author : Roger Herz-Fischler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486152324

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This comprehensive study traces the historic development of division in extreme and mean ratio ("the golden number") from its first appearance in Euclid's Elements through the 18th century. Features numerous illustrations.