TABLE OF CONTENTS The Feng Shui concept that a regular shape (rectangle, square, or round) has the most comfortable impact on an individual is based in mathematics and philosophy and is found in many cultures. From Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. to the present, philosophers and scientists alike have considered mathematics to be of utmost importance in every aspect of our lives. Numbers have long been used as the basis for determining shapes and the origin of geometry. Leonardo Fibonacci, a 13th-century Italian mathematician, set forth what has become known as the Fibonacci Sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is an unending sequence of numbers in which the first two numbers are 0 and 1 and each succeeding number is the sum of the two immediately preceding numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, and so on. The geometric ratio of any two successive numbers of the sequence, such as 8 to 13 or 13 to 21, is frequently found in nature, most notably in the curve of the nautilus shell, the leaf pattern of many plants, and the human body.
Leonardo da Vinci used the mathematical ratio of the Fibonacci Sequence in his work. Leonardo is considered the creator of the concept of the Golden Rectangle, the proportions of which approximate the Fibonacci Sequence as the numbers in the Sequence get higher. Leonardo's Golden Ratio is 1 to 1.618. As shown in Figure 3.6, the ratio of A, the smaller part, to B, the larger...
