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In this article we discuss some ideas associated with the Golden Ratio and its alleged appearances in art and biology.
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Leonardo da Vinci illustrated this book, a fact that gave rise to the legend that da Vinci knew about Φ and used it in his works.
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Provided the reader has no difficulty in using corners of square paper as folding points.
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Unfortunately, the author lost the reference to the source of this illustration.
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“This deviation from the golden ratio is particularly noticeable in the Jewess (Fig. M) and in the young Negro woman from Equatorial Africa (Fig. K)”.
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Spira, M. (2015). On the Golden Ratio. In: Cho, S. (eds) Selected Regular Lectures from the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17187-6_42
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