• The Golden Ratio in Nature
• The Golden Ratio in Architecture
• The Golden Ratio in Art
• The Golden Ratio in the Pentagram
• Quotes on the Golden Ratio
• Extreme and Mean Ratio
• Finding the Golden Ratio from a line cut in Extreme and Mean ratio.
• Solution to in-class work
• Using the Golden Ratio to cut lines in the Extreme an Mean ratio.
• Phi is irrational
• Ratios in the Great Pyramid of Giza
• Solutions to these problems
• Questions on the Golden Ratio and Pi in the Great Pyramid
• First practice with similarity
• More practice with similarity
• Practice with gnomons
• Golden Ratio in Art, Revisited
• Mona Lisa and the Golden Rectangle Applet
• The Golden Ratio in Nature
• Gnomonic/Spiral Growth
• First intro to the Fibonacci Sequence
• Practice with Fibonacci Numbers
• Solutions to our Fibonacci practice
• Practice with Binet's Formula
• A composite of the class' results for Seurat's La Parade de Cirque

Perspective | Back to Inclass

Janice Sklensky
Wheaton College
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Science Center, Room 101A
Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
TEL (508) 286-3973
FAX (508) 285-8278