The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Book
Formal Antecedent
Foundations and Logic
Citation
Mario Livio. (2003). The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number. Broadway Books.
Why this reference is included
Livio’s The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number (2003), published by Broadway Books, sits in the program’s reference corpus as a standing technical source. Cited in Book VII (Categorical Metaphysics), Part 4, Chapter The Golden Ratio, where the program draws on it in the context of “Architecture and Proportion The claim that the Parthenon was designed to golden-ratio proportions is, at best, approximate: the relevant ratios cluster near but are not exact, and….”
Cited in
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Book VII — Categorical Metaphysics Part 4Chapter The Golden Ratio
Architecture and Proportion The claim that the Parthenon was designed to golden-ratio proportions is, at best, approximate: the relevant ratios cluster near but are not exact, and the ancient Greeks left no documentary evidence that they consciously employed in architectural design