Posted by: Corina Paraschiv | March 25, 2010

Golden Ratio… found in Baghdad too?

The mathematician, al-Samawal, working in Baghdad, Iraq, around the year 1150, gives an expression for the Golden Ratio that looks much different from the expression we use. Is he correct?

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