Gnomon : from pharaohs to fractals / Midhat J. Gazalé.
Pubblicazione:
Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press, c1999.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 259 p., [16] p. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Introduction: Gnomons. 1. Figurate and m-adic numbers 2. Continued fractions 3. Fibonacci sequences 4. Ladders: from Fibonacci to wave propagation 5. Whorled figures 6. The golden number 7. The silver number 8. Spirals 9. Positional number systems 10. Fractals. Index
