The work on the project «The Secret of The Golden

Section» Creative works

of students

• Many generations of philosophers have been searching for «absolute truth», which has been interpreted as some universal standard.

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• Platon

Leonardo da Vinci Pythagoras

• In the definite historical period, Pythagoras was considered the founder of this search (6th century B.C.).

He was the first to bring the

definition of harmony into

humans’ use, which helped

to designate optional correlation

Of the parts and the whole.

a : b = b : c или с : b = b : а It was stipulated to divide

a segment of a straight line into two unequal parts.

Just three centuries later, an

Alexandrian mathematician and a follower of Pythagoras school Euclid described a geometrical way of harmonic division in his monumental work «The Elements»

In Europe it became known only in 1202 due to the works of the great Renaissance

mathematician Fibonacci.

In his book ‘Liber Abaci’, he described a number line consequently called

Fibonacci’s Line:

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144 …

The number equal to the sum of the two previous ones correlates to the bigger of the numbers so as a big number correlates to the smaller one.

Being a great artist and a talented mathematician and engineer, Leonardo noticed the correlation between some separate parts of a human body and many of these correlations are similar to those of divided segments.

His contemporary

Lucas Pacioli called

the correlation

«The Divine proportion»

and his book

«De Divina Proportione»

published in 1509 was

devoted to his investigation.

The mathematical standard of harmony and the artistic standard of beauty have been united into a single unit – the Golden Proportion.

What can we say about searching for the universal truth in the sphere of human relations and in the sphere of ethics, esthetics and morality?

There is a well-known moral thesis which was called Jesus Christ’s Golden Rule goes as follows:

«Treat people the way you would like to be treated».

The Golden Rule can estimate objective social relations in every aspect of life, from interpersonal to international ones.

Obviously, the application of The Golden Section and the Golden Rule principles will be the basis for harmonic development of humankind!