1 The seminal work on the Fibonacci sequence is Liber Abaci [Book of the Abacus] by Leonardo of Pisa, 1202. Contemporary seminal works include The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka, Dover Publications, 1978 [1946]; Elements of Dynamic Symmetry by Jay Hambidge, Dover Publications, 1978 [1920].
2 See, for example, Structural Patterns and Proportions in Virgil’s Aeneid by George Eckel Duckworth, University of Michigan Press, 1962; and “Did Mozart Use the Golden Section?” by Mike May, American Scientist, March-April 1996; and Le Modulor by Le Corbusier, Birkhauser, 2000 [1948].
3 “All That Glitters: A Review of Psychological Research on the Aesthetics of the Golden Section” by Christopher D. Green, Perception, 1995, vol. 24, p. 937–968.
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