The Golden Ratio: in harmony with the Universe

The Golden Ratio has been (and is) interpreted in different ways, depending on the period, country, religion etc.:

The Golden Section as “Universal Harmonic Ratio“

5th century b.C.
The mathematical concept of proportion, meant to relation of parts, has been introduced first by Pitagora (Pythagoras of Samos, a great mathematician, mystic and scientist), who combines balance with mathematic.
Pythagoras and his followers (the Pythagoreans), re-created the composing principles of musical harmony to obtain a [...]

Introduction to the Golden Section: the never-ending mistery

Ancient populations (far apart in distance and time) are linked one to another by a mistery, upon which archaeologists, astronomers, mathematicians, artists, psychologists, historians etc. are still working: the Golden Section.
The Golden Section, also called Golden Ratio, is usually defined as it follows: “two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio between the sum of those quantities and the larger one is the same as the ratio between [...]