by Mario Livio · Editorial Ariel · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434444959
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«La proporción áurea» is the popular science essay by Mario Livio, published by Editorial Ariel in hardcover (344 pages, in Spanish).
In this essay, Mario Livio reconstructs the history of the number phi, also called the golden ratio, from its definition by Euclid to its appearances in nature, art, and architecture. Livio examines how it fascinated Pythagoras, Kepler, Fibonacci, and Le Corbusier, and separates verified facts from myths.
It is part of the Ariel collection from Editorial Ariel as the first volume; the hardcover edition was published in 2006.
A popular science work aimed at the general public interested in mathematics, the history of science, and their links with art and nature.
Mario Livio is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope.
