The Golden Ratio exists within the human skull, says a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University. But what is the mythical number, and what does it mean?

The golden ratio’s aesthetic bona fides are an urban legend, a myth, a design unicorn. Many designers don’t use it, and if they do, they vastly discount its importance.

The golden ratio is a concept often used in various fields like architecture, art, and design to represent symmetry and proportion. It has also been applied to facial structures to determine ...

Wikimedia Commons A given set of numbers is said to be in a golden ratio if the following occurs: If the two ratios a/b and (a + b)/a both equal 1.618.. For example, Zeising claimed that if you ...

The golden ratio’s value is about 1.618 (but not exactly 1.618, since then it would be the ratio 1,618/1,000, and therefore not irrational) and it’s also referred to by the Greek letter φ, ...

The golden ratio is the ratio of a line segment that has been cut into multiple pieces of varying lengths. The golden ratio divides any line at 1.618, known as Phi, or the Greek letter ϕ.

This is the golden ratio, abbreviated as phi or "fee," depending on how you prefer to pronounce your Greek. These numbers after the decimal point, they go on forever without repeating.

The widespread belief that the golden ratio is the natural blueprint for beauty is pseudo‑scientific “hocus-pocus” according to leading mathematicians (AFP/Getty/EPA) ...