In 1983 amateur mathematician George Odom discovered that if points A and B
are the midpoints of sides EF and DE of an equilateral triangle, and line AB
meets the circumscribing circle at C, then AB/BC = AC/AB = φ. Odom used this
fact to construct a pentagon, which H.S.M. Coxeter published in the
American
Mathematical Monthly with the single word “Behold!”
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