The Glorious Golden Ratio

What exactly is the Golden Ratio? How was it discovered? Where is it found? These questions and more are thoroughly explained in this engaging tour of one of mathematics' most interesting phenomena. The authors  trace the appearance of the Golden Ratio throughout history, demonstrate a variety of ingenious techniques used to construct it, and illustrate the many surprising geometric figures in which the Golden Ratio is embedded.

Requiring no more than an elementary knowledge of geometry and algebra, the authors give readers a new appreciation of the indispensable qualities and inherent beauty of mathematics.

• The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
• The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret (Wooden Books)
• The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration beyond the Line
• The Secrets of Triangles: A Mathematical Journey
• Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number
• The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers
• Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures
• The Pythagorean Theorem: The Story of Its Power and Beauty
• Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology (Wooden Books)
• The Golden Ratio: The Facts and the Myths