• RecordNumber
    2121
  • Author

    Gailiunas, Paul

  • Title of Article

    The Golden Spiral: The Genesis of a Misunderstanding

  • Title Of Journal
    Bridges
  • Publication Year
    2015
  • Page
    159-166
  • Notes
    Proceedings of Bridges 2015: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture , براي مشاهده و دانلود مقاله به لينك مدارك مرتبط مراجعه نماييد
  • Abstract
    Among all of the unsupported assertions about the golden ratio one of the most puzzling is that the golden rectangle determines the proportions of the Nautilus shell, because it is demonstrably false. Given the flood of misinformation to be found on the internet it is probably inevitable that different versions of the idea are current, and some of them are not so obviously wrong, but it is surprising that it could have arisen in the first place. It is possible to trace its origins back into the nineteenth century, encountering some interesting methods of approximate construction along the way, but the mistake seems to be surprisingly modern.
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