Stephan C. Carlson
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Professor of Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. Author of Topology of Surfaces, Knots, and Manifolds: A First Undergraduate Course.
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Golden ratio, in mathematics, the irrational number (1 + 5)/2, often denoted by the Greek letter ϕ or τ, which is approximately equal to 1.618. It is the ratio of a line segment cut into two pieces of different lengths such that the ratio of the whole segment to that of the longer segment is equal…
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