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A Brief Journey in Discrete MathematicsAll That Glitters Is Not Gold

A Brief Journey in Discrete Mathematics: All That Glitters Is Not Gold [Despite the temptations of gold alluded to in Shakespeare’s verse above from The Merchant of Venice, the pursuit of mathematical gold leads not to gilded tombs but to the paradise of the Elysian fields of ancient Greece. Our journey in this chapter takes us back to the days of Phidias (480–430 BC), a Greek sculptor and mathematician who is said to have helped with the design of the Parthenon. The approach in this chapter uses a simple artifice—the ratio of two line segments.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Brief Journey in Discrete MathematicsAll That Glitters Is Not Gold

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-37860-8
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63 –77
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-37861-5_5
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[Despite the temptations of gold alluded to in Shakespeare’s verse above from The Merchant of Venice, the pursuit of mathematical gold leads not to gilded tombs but to the paradise of the Elysian fields of ancient Greece. Our journey in this chapter takes us back to the days of Phidias (480–430 BC), a Greek sculptor and mathematician who is said to have helped with the design of the Parthenon. The approach in this chapter uses a simple artifice—the ratio of two line segments.]

Published: Feb 12, 2020

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