Doubling measures and the golden ratio
An affordable problem I always kept two problems in mind, one which I want to solve and another which I can solve, Jean Bourgain –recently deceased– used to say. From time to time it is […]
golden ratio
Pacioli, Dürer and the highly secret science of the human body
A few weeks ago I devoted a post (Pacioli and Leonardo) to the personality of Luca Pacioli, taking as an excuse the fifth centenary of his death. There I commented on his relationship with Leonardo […]
Pacioli and Leonardo
This year celebrates the 500th anniversary of the death of Luca Pacioli. A mathematician as well as a friar –a Franciscan in this case– he was linked to two of the greatest artists of the […]