Mark Barr

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Mark Barr was an American mathematician who, in about 1909, gave the golden ratio the name of phi, the first Greek letter in the name of Phidias, the Greek sculptor who lived around 450 BC.[1]

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  1. ^ Cook, Theodore Andrea, The Curves of Life (1979) p. 420, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-23701-X.
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