Mathematics Education (Signadou)
Cracking the "Real" da Vinci Code:
Mathematics and Beauty
"Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is." [Paul Erdos]
Is there beauty in mathematics? Possibly.
Is there mathematics in beauty? Definitely!
To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the Palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour. [William Blake, 1757-1827]
Did you know?
Denzel Washington is reputed to have the most symmetrical face in Hollywood!
Does this make him the most beautiful of stars?
Leonardo da Vinci observed that the sum of the thicknesses of all twigs and branches of a tree cut by a circle of given radius, is equal to the thickness of the tree trunk!
The pentagram is the shape most closely associated with the Golden Ratio:
Can you see why?
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