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Published in: Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2/2008

01-03-2008 | Review

Numeric Expression of Aesthetics and Beauty

Authors: B. S. Atiyeh, S. N. Hayek

Published in: Aesthetic Plastic Surgery | Issue 2/2008

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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.
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Metadata
Title
Numeric Expression of Aesthetics and Beauty
Authors
B. S. Atiyeh
S. N. Hayek
Publication date
01-03-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery / Issue 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0364-216X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5241
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-007-9074-x

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