https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2015/07/07/math-error-museum-science-n... I was somewhat annoyed that the Globe had to resort to authority ("Arthur Mattuck, an emeritus professor of mathematics at MIT") rather than simply demonstrating that 2/(sqrt(5)+1) = (sqrt(5)-1)/2 using the very skills in high school algebra that were being celebrated earlier in the article, but that's a battle lost long ago. On 07/15/2015 02:17 PM, James Propp wrote:
Does anyone know anything about this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3152858/Teen-catches-math-error-gold...
The press release (sounding more political than mathematical) asserts that the way the Museum presents the Golden Ratio in its exhibit "is in fact the less common - but no less accurate - way to present it".
So, what was the "mistake" in the Eames exhibit, and was it in fact a mistake?
The newspaper story doesn't give details.
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