The following sources were instrumental in researching to put together this web page. They are an excellent place to start if you want to look into these principles more on your own.

Finch, S. MathSoft. "The Golden Mean" [online] available: http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/gold/gold.html (October 3, 1999)

Knott, Ron. "Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section" [online] available: http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html (January 3, 2000)

Knott, Ron "Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section in Nature" [online] available: http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html (January 3, 2000)

Unknown. "The Golden Mean" [online] available: http://www.vashti.net/mceince/golden.htm (January 3, 2000)

Unknown. "The Golden Ratio" [online] available: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/8228/ (May 18, 2000)

Unknown "The Greeks And The Golden Mean" [online] available: http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/Humanities/TheGoldenMean.html (November 1, 1999)

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Books

Becker, Oskar. "Grundlangen der mathematik in geschiehtlicher entwicklung" Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg, Munchen, translated in Romanian in 1968 by Alexandru Giuculescu

Bouleau, Charles. "La geometrie secrete des peintres" Editions du Seuil, 1967

Clawson, Calvin C., "Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers". New York, New York: Plenum Press/Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996

Hofstadter, Douglas R. "Godel, Escher, Back: an Eternal Golden Braid". New York, New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1979

Paris, Matila Ghyka. "Le nombre d’or" Librairie Gallimard, 1931

Stewart, Ian "Natures's Numbers" New York, New York: Basic Books, 1995

Wells, David "The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers" New York, New York: Penguin Books, 1987

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CDROMs

"Rome, ancient" 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danburry, CT: Grolier, 1998

"The Fibonacci Sequence" 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danburry, CT: Grolier, 1998

"The Golden Section" 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danburry, CT: Grolier, 1998

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Photo Credits

Image of Great Pyramid at /C005449/aesthetics.html from Guardian's Egypt: http://guardians.net/egypt, Andrew, Guardian@guardians.net, August 6, 2000. Email message.

Image of Parthenon at /C005449/greeks.html from The Ancient City of Athens: http://www.indiana.edu/~kglowack/athens/, Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy L. Klein, Permission on page.

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