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SIMPLE-MINDED GOLDEN SECTION EXAMPLES
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| Abstract:
Literature introduces the "golden number"
f
= 1.618... as a line segment subdivision obeying a rule dating from
Euclid’s time. Less ancient is the related "golden angle" of 36° occurring
in the pentagon and in Penrose tessellations. At the end of the 19th
century, unreliable statements about the golden section started to lead
their own life, but by the end of the 20th century, these
exaggerations created doubts about the exceptional nature of golden
section. A short focus on some excesses still seems appropriate for a
conference on the borderline of mathematics and art, as some of the given
consequences for society are so simple-minded every reader will be warned
for good about this golden section myth
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