Martin Ohm

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Martin Ohm

German mathematician

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…the 19th century German mathematician Martin Ohm introduced the term goldene Schnitt (“golden section”) in the second edition of his textbook Die Reine Elementar-Mathematik (1835; “The Pure Elementary Mathematics”). The first known English use of “golden section” was by English psychologist James Sully in his 1875 article on aesthetics for…
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…the 19th century German mathematician Martin Ohm introduced the term goldene Schnitt (“golden section”) in the second edition of his textbook Die Reine Elementar-Mathematik (1835; “The Pure Elementary Mathematics”). The first known English use of “golden section” was by English psychologist James Sully in his 1875 article on aesthetics for…
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