Transcript The work with the project «Secret of the gold section»

The work on the project
«The Secret of The Golden
Section»
Creative works
of students
• Many generations of philosophers have been
searching for «absolute truth», which has been
interpreted as some universal standard.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Platon
Pythagoras
• In the definite historical period, Pythagoras was
considered the founder of this search
(6th century B.C.).
He was the first to bring the
definition of harmony into
humans’ use, which helped
to designate optional correlation
Of the parts and the whole.
a : b = b : c или с : b = b : а
It was stipulated to divide
a segment of a straight line into
two unequal parts.
Just three centuries later, an
Alexandrian mathematician
and a follower of Pythagoras
school Euclid described
a geometrical way of
harmonic division in
his monumental work
«The Elements»
In Europe it became
known only in 1202 due
to the works of
the great Renaissance
mathematician Fibonacci.
In his book ‘Liber Abaci’,
he described a number
line consequently called
Fibonacci’s Line:
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89
,144 …
The number equal to the sum of the two
previous ones correlates to the bigger of
the numbers so as a big number
correlates to the smaller one.
Being a great artist and a talented mathematician and
engineer, Leonardo noticed the correlation between
some separate parts of a human body and many of
these correlations are similar to those of divided
segments.
His contemporary
Lucas Pacioli called
the correlation
«The Divine proportion»
and his book
«De Divina Proportione»
published in 1509 was
devoted to his investigation.
The mathematical
standard of harmony
and the artistic
standard of beauty
have been united into a
single unit – the
Golden Proportion.
What can we say about searching for the universal
truth in the sphere of human relations and in the
sphere of ethics, esthetics and morality?
There is a well-known
moral thesis which
was called Jesus
Christ’s Golden Rule
goes as follows:
«Treat people
the way you
would like to be
treated».
The Golden Rule can estimate objective
social relations in every aspect of life, from
interpersonal to international ones.
Obviously, the application of The Golden
Section and the Golden Rule principles will
be the basis for harmonic development of
humankind!