Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of European cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.

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GOLDENSPIRAL

The mathematics of beauty — Fibonacci, the golden ratio, and the patterns that shape nature, art, and design.

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