Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci Sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry History_Gift_Guide an idealistic social worker turns

an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young

a physician and researcher from the Yale School of Medicine

hardly blending in at all

long-buried nuggets of truth—embedded in myth

though there have been bumps along the way

Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci Sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry History_Gift_Guide an idealistic social worker turnsMuch of math history comes to us from early astrologers who needed to be able to describe and record what they saw in the night sky. Whether you were the king's court astrologer or a farmer marking the best time for planting, timekeeping and numbers really mattered. Mistake a numerical pattern of petals and you could be poisoned. Lose the rhythm of a sacred dance or the meter of a ritually told story and the intricately woven threads that hold life