Eliane Herz-Fischler holds a Doctorat de l'Université from the Université de la Sorbonne in
seventeenth century theatre. Her thesis was entitled La Dramaturgie de Thomas Corneille.
"Le tragi-comédie en France de 1600
à1640"
"Theorem XIV** of the First
`Supplement' to Euclid's
Elements" Archives internationales d'histoire
des sciences 38 (1988), no. 120, pp. 3-66 [I consider this as my best work].
"De quand date le premier rapprochement
entre la suite de
Fibonacci et la division en extrêeme et moyenne raison?"
(with L. Curchin).
"Proportions in the Architecture Curriculum"
A link to the article in HTML format.
The article
in PDF
format. N.B. In the PDF version Figure 21, "Garches"
is labelled 21 and Figure 22 "Stuttgart" is missing.
"Le Nombre d'Or en France de 1896 à 1927" The article itself.
Notes for the article.
"How to Find the 'Golden
Number' Without Really Trying"
[This is suggested reading for anyone who is analysing literature, music or anything involving counts; for
continuous measurements see the chapter on philosophy in The Shape of the Great Pyramid.]
"The Home of Golden Numberism"
"On the Application of the
Golden Ratio in the Visual Arts"
"Seurat and the Golden Number"
Several of my articles deal entirely or in part with Le Corbusier:
Case studies 10, 11 and 12 of
"Proportions in the
Architecture Curriculum" discuss, with mathematical details, Le Corbusier's methods. Figures 20 --
28 may be consulted in connection with the next two articles. For a clearer copy of the preliminary sketch
(Figure 21) for Garches, see below.
"The Early of Relationship of Le
Corbusier to the 'Golden Number' "
The printed version of "Le Corbusier's 'Regulating Lines' for the Villa at Garches (1927)
and Other Early Architectural Works" was a much shortened version (16 footnotes) of the original (40
footnotes) version. Following several exchanges with Jef7rey Hildner (see his Garches 1234, special
edition, Boston:
The Architect Painter Press, 2009, for many drawings,
photographs and his analysis of Garches) I have decided to present my original version (typed in Paris in
early 1983; the lines and streaks represent "cut and paste" in the pre-word processor sense). See
"Proportions in the
Architecture Curriculum" for the diagrams referred to.
The original summary, list of
diagrams
and chart of published examples of regulating lines for "Le Corbusier's 'Regulating
Lines' for the Villa at Garches (1927) and Other Early Architectural Works".
The original text for
"Le
Corbusier's 'Regulating Lines' for the Villa at Garches (1927) and Other Early Architectural
Works".
The original footnotes for
"Le
Corbusier's 'Regulating Lines' for the Villa at Garches (1927) and Other Early Architectural
Works".
A clearer copy of the preliminary
sketch for Garches.
The contract for Garches, November
10, 1926.
The article "Le
Nombre
d'Or en France" discusses Le Corbusier's relationship to the painters
Gris and Severini.
"Geographical Boundary
Extrema" (with HelenJane Armstrong)
"Durer's Paradox, or Why an Ellipse is Not Egg-Shaped"
An Introduction to Octave for High School and University Students
Roger Herz-Fischler is a retired professor of mathematics, with a Ph.D. in theoretical probability.
A Mathematical History of Division in Extreme and Mean Ratio,
republished as A Mathematical History of the Golden Number
The Shape of the Great Pyramid
Adolph Zeising / (1810-1876) / The Life and Work of a German Intellectual
