Is the Golden Section a Key for Understanding Beauty? (Part II)

Franco Eugeni, Luca Nicotra

Abstract


Our goal is to prove that the golden section, however important, is not the only key to understand a mathematical-formalizing approach to the idea of beauty. Having developed, from this point of view, reading keys linked to the post-modern, it is necessary to link together the multiple rivulets of knowledge that gather in this direction. Moreover the canons of the approaches presented up to now are very indicative for the understanding of many aspects of beauty, which however depends on the historical moment and the cultures created in the various civilizations. Therefore we can affirm that there is no effective definition of "beauty" that can be codified through fixed canons, but that the concept is expressed by a series of stratifications and interpretations that tend to link several major variations, expressing the various answers given by man to the question: what is the beauty?

Keywords


Golden section; golden number; beauty; golden rectangle; fractals; Sezione aurea; numero aureo; bellezza; rettangolo aureo; frattali

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23756/sp.v6i2.421

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