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Mathematician Alexey Savvateev on irrational numbers, Leonardo Fibonacci, and the regular pentagon Read the lecture transcript here: https://postnauka.ru/video/155813 Create a personal account on PostNauka to save your favorite courses, see the history of the materials you have completed, and receive personalized recommendations — https://postnauka.ru/link/profile The golden ratio, or golden proportion, is the ratio of two quantities in which the larger quantity is related to the smaller one in the same way as the sum of these quantities is to the larger one: for example, the segment AC is divided into two parts in such a way that its larger part AB is related to the smaller BC in the same way as the entire segment AC is related to AB. What is the golden ratio famous for, and how does Fibonacci's problem about rabbit reproduction relate to it? Complex numbers: https://postnauka.ru/video/155767 Approximation theory: https://postnauka.ru/video/155774 Alexey Savvateev (https://postnauka.ru/themes/savvateev) — Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Dmitry Pozharsky University Support PostNauka — https://postnauka.ru/donate/ See more lectures, interviews and articles about fundamental science and the scientists who create it on the website http://postnauka.ru/. PostNauka — everything you wanted to know about science, but didn’t know who to ask. Follow us on social networks: VK: https://vk.com/postnauka FB: / postnauka Twitter: / postnauka Odnoklassniki: https://ok.ru/postnauka Telegram: https://tx.me/postnauka