Mario Livio

Broschiertes Buch

The Golden Ratio

The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

Beschreibung

The first book for the layperson on a mathematical relationship that has obsessed mathematicians, philosophers, scientists, and artists since ancient Greece--an omnipresent number considered to be "divine."

Autor

Mario Livio is head of the Science Division at the Hubble Space Telescope Institute, where he studies a broad range of subjects in astrophysics, particularly the rate of expansion of the universe. He is the author of one previous book, The Accelerating Universe (2000). He is a frequent public lecturer at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution and the Hayden Planetarium. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780767908160
• ISBN-10: 0767908163
• Artikelnr.: 22352817