This is the Nexus Network Journal's first special issue dedicated to a particular subject: The golden section. The golden section, commonly denoted by phi,, is almost certainly the most controversial subject in the interdisciplinary field served by the Nexus Network Journal. Its use as a design tool is not controversial. Indeed, it is hard to argue with the considerable potential for useful proportional relationships available to the designer, based on the mathematical properties of the golden section, whereby additive and multiplicative properties are so beautifully married because of the fact that phi squared equal phi plus one (the square of the Golden Section is equal to the Golden Section plus Unity). No, the golden section is controversial because of the large number of questionable claims about applications of the golden section to a wide range of objects, both natural and human-made. Stephen R. Wassell

CONTENTS
Stephen R. Wassell, Guest Editor. Letter From The Editor

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Marcus Frings. The Golden Section In Architectural Theory

Christopher Glass. The Pythagopod

John Sharp. Spirals And The Golden Section

Dirk Huylebrouck and Patrick Labarque. More True Applications Of The Golden Number

THE GEOMETER'S ANGLE
Mark A. Reynolds. R-Tiles

Scott A. Olsen. The Indefinite Dyad And The Golden Section: Uncovering Plato's Second Principle

BOOK AND ARTICLE REVIEWS

John Sharp. Proportion: Science Philosophy Architecture by Richard Padovan

Michael J. Ostwald and Stephen R. Wassell. "Dynamical Symmetries: Mathematical Synthesis Between Chaos Theory (Complexity), Fractal Geometry, And The Golden Mean" by Nigel Reading