THAT art and mathematics can make for miserable bedfellows cannot have escaped the attention of Alfred Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann. The mathematics in this book is a delight: surprising, insightful and comprehensive. Perhaps that’s why their sometimes rather desperate attempts to connect the Fibonacci numbers with the Parthenon, the Cheops pyramid at Giza or any number of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci appear so unsatisfying by comparison. The result is by turns rigorous, entertaining and eye-poppingly speculative.
The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers
Prometheus Books
