... the first to use mathematics in art. It seems almost certain that they used magical properties of the Golden Ratio in the design of their great pyramids. "The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus was told by Egyptian temple priests that the Great Pyramid was constructed in such a way that the area of each of its four faces is equal to the square of ... its height" (Brinkworth, Peter). If one takes a cross section of the Great Pyramid, the result is a right triangle, "the so-called Egyptian Triangle" (Britton, Jill). In any right triangle the relationship between the hypotenuse to the other...

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