Channel: PBS Infinite Series

Category: Education

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Description: Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: to.pbs.org/donateinfi You know the Golden Ratio, but what is the Silver Ratio? Learn through active problem-solving at Brilliant: brilliant.org/InfiniteSeries Dive into more open problem solving right here brilliant.org/InfiniteSeriesOpenProblem Tweet at us! @pbsinfinite Facebook: facebook.com/pbsinfinite series Email us! pbsinfiniteseries [at] gmail [dot] com RESOURCES Polygons, Diagonals, and the Bronze Mean by Antonia Redondo Buitrago link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00004-007-0046-x.pdf Previous Episode Proving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem youtu.be/djaSbHKK5yc Cut a line segment into unequal pieces of lengths a and b such that the ratio a to b is the same as the ratio (a + b) to a --- that is, so that big over medium equals medium over small. This is how you construct the golden ratio Phi. If a rectangle has an aspect ratio of Phi, you can subdivide it forever into a square and another golden rectangle, and make fun logarithmic spirals by connecting the corners. Written and Hosted by Gabe Perez-Giz Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Ray Lux Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow and Meah Denee Barrington Made by Kornhaber Brown (kornhaberbrown.com) Special thanks to Roman Pinchuk for supporting us on our Converse level on Patreon. Along with thanks to Matthew O'Connor, Yana Chernobilsky, and John Hoffman who are supporting us on Patreon at the Identity level! And thanks to Nicholas Rose, Jason Hise, Thomas Scheer, Marting Sergio H. Faester, CSS, and Mauricio Pacheco who are supporting us at the Lemma level!