Quotation

The Golden Ratio

the Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Goethe expressed elsewhere his opinion on mathematics thus: “The mathematicians are a sort of Frenchmen: when you talk to them, they immediately translate it into their own language, and right away it is something entirely different.” === Each wife of Fibonacci, Eating nothing that wasn’t starchy, Weighed as much as the two before her, His fifth was some signora! Similarly, two lines from a poem by Katherine O’Brien read: Fibonacci couldn’t sleep— Counted rabbits instead of sheep. === Mephistopheles: Let me admit; a tiny obstacle Forbids my walking out of here: It is the druid’s foot upon your threshold. Faust: The pentagram distresses you? But tell me, then, you son of hell. If this impedes you, how did you come in? Mephistopheles: Observe! The lines are poorly drawn; That one, the angle pointing outward, Is, you see, a little open.