I was never that excited about the golden mean (supposedly the ratio in the Acropolis of its width to its height) despite its link to Fibonacci's sequence, which is awesome. Steven Strogatz explores the golden mean here, especially focusing on its relationship to pentagons and pentagrams. Devil worshippers and military-industrial complex conspiracists, you're golden.
It's always worth checking out his bibliography. It will take you to this movie about Fibonacci, which of course pretends that real nautiluses (nautili?) follow the golden mean. But watch it anyway.
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