Dynamic root rectangles. I: The fundamentals

MaRDI QIDQ1011825zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Rachel Fletcher

Publication date 14 April 2009

Published in Nexus Network Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Lindisfarne Gospels

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics for nonmathematicians (engineering, social sciences, etc.) (00A06) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Review text

This paper, aimed at an audience with hardly any mathematical background, is devoted to the indidvidual construction with ruler and compass of \(\sqrt{2}, \sqrt{3}, \sqrt{4}\) [sic], \(\sqrt{5}, \sqrt{6}\), as well as to figures consisting of stacks of rectangles (or of cubes) whose sides (or sides and diagonals) are in ratios involving the above square roots. The author then introduces a certain page in Lindisfarne Gospels, the Matthew Cross-Carpet Page (folio 26v), and suggests a way in which it could have been laid out, with \(\sqrt{2}\) and \(\sqrt{3}\) showing up in the measurements.

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