Golden Ratio
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    • 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
    • Phi is irrational
    • Ratios in the Great Pyramid of Giza
    • Calculations for the Great Pyramid
    • Questions on the Golden Ratio and Pi in the Great Pyramid
    • First practice with similarity
    • Similarity: The basics
    • More practice with similarity
    • Square and Triangular Numbers; Intro to Gnomons
    • More on Gnomons
    • Summary of Results when working with actual gnomons
    • Summary of Results to In Class Work 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
    • What We Know About Fibonacci Numbers So Far
    • Practice with Binet's Formula
    • A composite of the results for Seurat's La Parade de Cirque found by this class with those found by the last couple of classes

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    Janice Sklensky
    Wheaton College
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Science Center, Room 101A
    Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
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