Journal article
Numeric expression of aesthetics and beauty
Aesthetic plastic surgery, Vol.32(2), pp.209-216
03/01/2008
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-007-9074-x
PMID: 18058166
Abstract
Debate over what constitutes beauty, particularly beauty of the human body, has raged since philosophy began. Interested scholars have debated the meaning of beauty for centuries. However, it seems that numbers and the resulting numeric relationships play a fundamental role in the classification of the human body, and that a harmonic profile or body shape is produced only at certain definite numeric relationships. The beauty of individual features depends on "ideal" proportions, and it is suggested that expressing beauty in terms of geometry is possible. As the demand for aesthetic surgery has increased tremendously over the past few decades, it is becoming essential to be able to assess the possible satisfaction that can be expected after an aesthetic surgery procedure and to determine the beauty of the final result as precisely as possible.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Numeric expression of aesthetics and beauty
- Creators
- B S Atiyeh - American University of Beirut Medical CenterS N Hayek - University of Minnesota
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Aesthetic plastic surgery, Vol.32(2), pp.209-216
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00266-007-9074-x
- PMID
- 18058166
- ISSN
- 0364-216X
- eISSN
- 1432-5241
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- Surgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984702717702771
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