Pentagons and Pentagrams : : An Illustrated History / / Eugen Jost, Eli Maor.
A fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role in various culturesThe pentagon and its close cousin, the pentagram, have inspired individuals for the last two and half millennia, from mathematicians and philosophers to artists and naturalists. Despite the pentagon’s wide-ranging history, no...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE. Why the Pentagon?
- 1 Five
- 2 φ
- 3 But Is It Divine?
- 4 Constructing the Regular Pentagon
- 5 The Pentagram
- 6 Pentastars
- 7 Tessellations
- 8 The Discovery of Fivefold Symmetry in Crystals
- 9 Oh, That Pentagon
- A The Elementary Euclidean Constructions
- B Three Properties of the Fibonacci Numbers
- C A Proof That There Exist Only Five Platonic Solids
- D Summary of Formulas
- E Solutions to Puzzles
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CREDITS
- INDEX