the Art Department of Mary Washington College, where he taught his personal aesthetic theories for three years. In 1950 he returned to his wife at their family home in Dublin and his Practical Handbook of Geometry and Design was published in 1952. Salvador Dalí possessed two copy of Ghyka's books which was read by theatre director Peter Brook, who was profoundly influenced by Ghyka's ideas on the mathematical relationships between classical art and the human body. The only monograph on his life and work appeared in Romanian. Works Contes marécageux; unpublished juvenilia c1900. Esthétique des proportions dans la nature et dans les arts (1927) (printed in Italian, Russian, Spanish) Le nombre d'or. Rites et rythmes pythagoriciens dans le development de la civilisation occidentale (1931) which ran into many editions and was prefaced by his friend and admirer Paul Valéry (translated into Italian, Czech, Spanish, Polish, English, Romanian) Pluie d'étoiles (1933) (English as Again One Day, 1936) - the only novel Ghyka wrote, printed also in Romanian Essai sur le rythme (1938) Sortilèges du verbe (1949), prefaced by Léon-Paul Fargue A Documented Chronology of Roumanian History from Pre-historic Times to the Present Day (1941), printed also in Romanian The Geometry of Art and Life (1946) (translated into Chinese - 2014 and japanese - 2021) Tour d'horizon philosophique (1946) A Practical Handbook of Geometry and Design (1952) Philosophie et Mystique du nombre (1952) (translated into Serbian, Spanish, Romanian) Couleur du monde (1: Escales de ma jeunesse (1955), 2: Heureux qui comme Ulysse (1956)) (translated into Romanian) The World Mine Oyster. London, Heinemann, 1961 (English version of "Couleur du monde") Further reading Ghyka has been the subject of recent publications in German and Romanian. References Matyla Diplomats from Iași Romanian essayists 20th-century Romanian historians Romanian mathematicians Romanian male novelists Romanian male poets Romanian writers in French Honorary Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Free University of Brussels (1834–1969) alumni Military personnel from Iași 1881 births 1965 deaths University of Mary Washington faculty Romanian people of Albanian descent 20th-century Romanian poets 20th-century Romanian novelists Male essayists 20th-century essayists 20th-century Romanian male writers Romanian military personnel of World War I École Navale alumni