Method of modulation and sizing of historic architecture

DOI10.1007/S00004-012-0125-5MaRDI QIDQ468549zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francisco Roldán

Publication date 7 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-012-0125-5

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrysequencespolygonsprime numberspatternsseriesdimensionssquaring the circlemetrologyad quadratumgeometric systemsincommensurable ratiosirrational numbersmeasuring systemsnumber seriesproportional analysisregular polygonsrule-based architecturesilver mean

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and architecture (00A67)

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