It’s time to understand what the Golden Ratio is, where we can find it and how we can use it.

This mysterious irrational number appears in many different fields: it represents the way in which leaves are born from the stem of a flower, it’s the rotating movement that characterizes the galaxies, the golden number is the perfect proportion of beauty in Art and even your face could show the golden proportion in the distance between your eyes and your mouth. 

 

 

In the next pages you can find some examples of the Golden Ratio in botany, biology, geometry and art and some simple activities to do. So, let’s start this marvellous journey through the mysteries of the Golden Ratio