Mighty is geometry — joined with art, irresistible.
— Euripides (480-406 BCE)
The idea of ‘Sacred Geometry’ is that mathematics can be beautiful. For example, here’s one of the most famously beautiful equations in mathematics:
eiπ + 1 = 0
It’s called “Euler’s Identity,” after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783, pronounced “OIL-er”) who first discovered it. You have to be far into math for this equation just to make sense, much less to find it beautiful.
Geometry is another story. Here’s a geometrically generated image: (more…)