Naval officer, diplomat, writer, mathematician, aesthetician, historian
Spouse
Eileen O'Conor
Children
2
Awards
Royal Victorian Order Military Cross
Prince Matila Costiescu Ghyka (Romanian pronunciation:[maˈtilaˈɟika]; born Matila Costiescu; 13 September 1881 – 14 July 1965), was a Romanian naval officer, novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher, academic and diplomat. He did not return to Romania after World War II, and was one of the most significant members of the Romanian diaspora.[1] His first name is sometimes written as Matyla.
^Roxana Patraș: „Dematerialization and Form-of-Life in Matila Ghyka’s Writings.“ In: Hermeneia 17, 2016, pp. 253–265, http://hermeneia.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/24_VARIA_Patras-R.pdf.
Prince Matila Costiescu Ghyka (Romanian pronunciation: [maˈtila ˈɟika]; born Matila Costiescu; 13 September 1881 – 14 July 1965), was a Romanian naval...
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National Defense of Romania MatilaGhyka (1881–1965), Romanian writer, historian and diplomat Pantazi Ghica (1831–1882)...
Publishing. pp. 19–29. ISBN 0-7661-7679-7. Dynamic Symmetry root rectangles. MatilaGhyka (1977). The Geometry of Art and Life. Courier Dover Publications. pp...
by the artist following the recommendations of Romanian mathematician MatilaGhyka. Unlike his contemporaries who took the view that mathematics distracted...
Goetheanum: Rudolf Steiner's Architectural Impulse (London, 1979), pg. 49 MatilaGhyka, The Geometry of Art and Life, Sheen and Ward, NY 1946, p. 5. "Eurhythmy"...
Publishing. pp. 19–29. ISBN 0-7661-7679-7. Dynamic Symmetry root rectangles. MatilaGhyka (1977). The Geometry of Art and Life. Courier Dover Publications. pp...
greater than root-5 are seldom found in human designs. According to MatilaGhyka, Hambidge's dynamic rectangles can produce the most varied and satisfactory...
mentions whole number ratios. Salvador Dalí, influenced by the works of MatilaGhyka, explicitly used the golden ratio in his masterpiece, The Sacrament of...
Meyerhold and by the works of G. I. Gurdjieff, Edward Gordon Craig, and MatilaGhyka. Brook collaborated with actors Paul Scofield as Lear, John Gielgud in...
Velázquez (1639) and The Immaculate Conception by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. MatilaGhyka and others contend that Georges Seurat used golden ratio proportions...
Romanians: A History. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0511-9. Ghyka, Matila. A Documented Chronology of Roumanian History – from prehistoric times...
letter, as early as 1979. Another name for the same triangle, used by MatilaGhyka in his 1946 book on the golden ratio, The Geometry of Art and Life, is...
Bărnuțiu, jurist, priest, politician, publicist, lawyer, writer, professor MatilaGhyka, famous polymath, mathematician and author Mihail Kogălniceanu, lawyer...
military commander and postelnic of Wallachia in the 17th century. MatilaGhyka – Romanian Naval officer, novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher...
She moved in Romania's highest aristocratic circles and befriended by MatilaGhyka, Jean Chryssoveloni, Martha Bibescu, Cella Delavrancea, Nae Ionescu and...
first Nobel laureate from Asia), Romanian aesthetician and diplomat MatilaGhyka, journalist Janet Flanner (also known as Genêt, who set the New Yorker...
Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing. pp. 19–29. ISBN 0-7661-7679-7. MatilaGhyka (1977). The Geometry of Art and Life. Courier Dover Publications. pp...
Ghica Alexandru Plagino Ion Bălăceanu Nicolae Titulescu Vasile Grigorcea MatilaGhyka Radu Florescu Stan Soare Radu Onofrei Dan Ghibernea Mihnea Motoc Monarhia...
Grigore Gafencu Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu Dimitrie Ghika Ion Ghica MatilaGhyka Constantin Grecianu Vasile Grigorcea Alexandru Gurănescu Back to top...
Galsworthy – One More River Erle Stanley Gardner – The Case of the Sulky Girl MatilaGhyka – Pluie d'étoiles Anthony Gilbert Death in Fancy Dress The Musical Comedy...
regular meetings with a small group of friends, including Emil Schnellock, MatilaGhyka, and Milton Stansbury. He was a faculty member for 25 years until 1971...
1241–1502,Editura Demiurg, 2010, p.25 Novgorod Chronice, years 1219-1232 Ghyka, Matila, A Documented Chronology of Roumanian History, Oxford: B. H. Blackwell...
H.S.M. (1973) [1948]. Regular Polytopes (3rd ed.). New York: Dover. Ghyka, Matila (1977). The geometry of art and life ([Nachdr.] ed.). New York: Dover...
Baron Broughshane Charles Benjamin Dowse, 8th Bishop of Killaloe Matila Costiesco Ghyka, Romanian prince, novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher...
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