Geometry and proportions in the funeral chapel of Sarenput II

DOI10.1007/s00004-014-0218-4zbMath1326.00057OpenAlexW2040359732MaRDI QIDQ895618

Fernando Martínez Hermoso, Alejandro Jiménez Serrano, Francisco de Paula Montes Tubío, Juan Antonio Martínez Hermoso

Publication date: 4 December 2015

Published in: Nexus Network Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-014-0218-4

zbMATH Keywords

geometrysymmetrymodulesequilibriumsquareequilateral trianglemeasurementtrigonometrydiagonalirrational numbersrational numbersratioproportiondesign analysisincommensurables12th dynastyancient Egyptcommensurablesfunerary architecturehypostyle HallMiddle KingdomNecropolis of Qubbet El-Hawa

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16) Mathematics and architecture (00A67)

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• Were the Fibonacci series and the golden section known in ancient Egypt?

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