Chislo Boga - Livio Mario

The famous American astrophysicist and popularizer of science Mario Livio conducts a fascinating investigation of the history of the number ? or 1,6180339887... As soon as this mysterious number was not called: the golden section, the number of God, and the divine proportion. It plays an important role in the geometry of wildlife, and in human creations, it is laid in the basis of paintings, sculpture and architecture, it is dedicated to adventure novels! But is such fame deserved? What is true and what is fiction, what is the history of the Golden Section in science and culture, and what is the reason for such interest in a simple geometric ratio? Exciting plot, little-known facts from the history of science and unexpected comparisons - that's what makes this non-fiction book a real detective and an undoubted bestseller.