Sidebar, the golden ratio. We are dealing with the number phi, which was one plus square root of five over two and it is approximately equal to 1.6180.3 etc. And the other root of the characteristic equation was equal to one minus the square root of five over two, and this is equal to minus one over phi or one minus phi. Okay. These numbers were already known to ancient Greeks and these number phi is known as the golden ratio. What makes it so special? Okay, let's consider our Fibonacci Sequence. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. And let us consider the ratios of two consecutive numbers. fn divided by fn minus one. So, we obtain 1, 2 over 1 makes 2. This is 1.5. Five thirds are 1.66..etc, 8 over 5 makes 1.6, 13 divided by 8 is 1.625. And so, you see that these, well, this is say the next one is, 1.615, etc. So you see that these sequence of ratios converges rather quickly to this value phi. And, indeed, this is clear from Benes formula. We see that if fn is equal to 1 over square root of 5, 1 plus square root of 5 over 2, to the power n minus 1 minus square root of 5 over 2 over n. Then for n sufficiently large and this is pretty close to this sum, because this number is, its absolute value is less than one. It is between zero and one. And it's nth powers converge towards zero. So fn is approximate, well let me put it like this, is approximately equal to 1 over the square root of 5, (1 + square root of 5 over 2) to the power n. So the ratio of, fn over fn- 1 converges towards phi. Okay, what is so special about this number? The ancient Greeks called this number the golden proportion or sometimes it was called the divine proportion for the following reason. Let's take an interval, divided into two parts such that their ratio is, Phi. So a the larger part, Over the small part is phi. We say that a divided by b is the golden ration if the larger part, Divided by the length of the small part is equal to, The length of the whole segment divided by the larger part. So this means that if a over b is (a+b) over a. So if a over b is equal to a + b over a, we say that a and b form a golden ratio. Well, what does it mean? We see that this means that a squared is equal to ab plus b squared or a over b squared is a over b plus 1. And we see the equation which is already familiar to us. This is a quadratic equation with a over b as a variable and its solutions are exactly phi and psi. The golden ratio and 1 minus phi. So, if you take a rectangle with sides a and a plus b, Like this, And if you divide it into a square with side a, and a rectangle with sides a and b, you see that this smaller rectangle is similar to the whole one. So, if you proceed again and if you take this smaller rectangle and if you cut a square, then you are left with a third rectangle which is similar to both of these two and so on and so on. You can then draw this small triangle, add a small rectangle, and proceed in this way. So, sometimes, in some pictures, you can see a spiral of this form. Let's draw a quarter of a circle in each of these rectangles, in each of these squares, so they will form something like this. This rectangle was considered to be the most pleasant for our mind, for our eye. And this golden ratio is said to be found in many proportions appearing in nature and human body. And it was used very intensively by artists and architects starting from the time of ancient Greece where it appears in kinds of many Greek temples until our time until Salvador Dali and [FOREIGN].
