Using the Golden Ratio to Construct Poems
Sarah Glaz and Lisa Lajeunesse

Proceedings of Bridges 2025: Mathematics and the Arts
Pages 603–608
Workshop Papers

Abstract

The ancient irrational number known as 𝜙, the golden ratio, has been used as a pattern in the arts since the beginning of the 20th century. Its geometrical and numerical properties lend content or structure to works of visual art, architecture, music, and poetry. This workshop explores three golden ratio poetry writing techniques, which were developed by the authors in previous papers in 2024 and 2025. Particularly, the workshop focuses on writing poems using the decimal expansion of 𝜙, the connection between 𝜙 and the Fibonacci sequence, and the 𝜙-driven Le Modulor system in architecture.

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