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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the character of truth. In this intriguing book, Mario Livio tells the story of the quantity in the centre of the mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887,This interested numerical connection, well known as "The Golden Ratio," was found by Euclid significantly more than two-thousand years back due to the essential role in the building of the pentagram, to which magical properties have been credited. Since that time it's demonstrated a tendency to surface in the absolute most amazing number of locations, from mollusk shells, sunflower florets, and flower petals for the form of the universe. Mental studies have examined if the Golden Ratio may be the most aesthetically-pleasing amount extant, and it's been declared that it was employed by the creators of the Pyramids and the Parthenon.