Is Bella Hadid mathematically or scientifically perfect woman in the world?

Is there such a thing as a mathematically or scientifically perfect person? 

Recently there have been headlines claiming that Bella Hadid is the most beautiful woman in the world, with Beyonce as the second. All of this should be based on the Golden Section of Beauty Phi - a formula that the Greeks first wrote about and allegedly determines beauty through mathematics. Initially, it was applied in terms of design (as with the Parthenon), but Leonardo DaVinci apparently used the formula to create the Mona Lisa to make her aesthetically more attractive.

Although it is fairly generally agreed that the Mona Lisa is an important work of art, you should press hard today to find people who say they have been overwhelmed by the physical beauty of Mona Lisa. 

But if she was dyed with the help of this golden section that claims that she makes everything "more beautiful" mathematically, wouldn't people find her all that way? Or is this perhaps all bupkis?

The number 1.6180 does not occur to you when you are asked to think of the most beautiful person you can imagine. However, the Daily Mail has published a number of stories in which a plastic surgeon found a way to use it to compare the faces of famous women to contrast their physical beauty. 

And to be honest, it does nothing but maintain false ideals of beauty: not only must your face be symmetrical, not only is this, that and the other wrong with your functions, but now they must also fit into a certain formula devised by the ancient Greeks? Maybe not.

Many people have already told stories about why the golden ratio is probably nonsense in general. In an article for Fast Company, design writer John Brownlee says that not only the golden ratio will always be a 'bit', but that many of the claims themselves have been misquoted by the Franciscan brother who wrote De Divina Proportione, a book about the golden ratio. 

Another article, this time in The Independent by science correspondent Ian Johnston, gives us even more about how many mathematicians just don't see how the use of this relationship could dictate human beauty. Especially because people just don't work that way and beauty doesn't either.

"The golden ratio is based on a concept that simply does not translate into three-dimensional people," says Dr. Beverly Hills-based plastic surgeon. Jay Calvert, who states that the golden ratio is simply not clinically relevant, says Yahoo Lifestyle.

“The beauty of every person must be seen with their variations and imperfections. This is where the artistry of plastic surgery lies. It's all about improving what every individual has that creates a better appearance, "adds Dr. Calvert.

“As a plastic surgeon I don't use this when evaluating a patient's face. ... Symmetry on a face is important. However, sometimes it can be 'dull' and the face can look like a Barbie doll or there is no noticeable feature that 'pops', says the Denver-based plastic surgeon. Dr. Shah reminds us that there are many celebrities whose appearance does not match the golden ratio, such as Tyra Banks, who has a very high forehead, and Julia Roberts, who has an exceptionally broad mouth.

The fact is that beauty ideals differ between cultures and over time. And although some people across the board can be seen as "more beautiful" than others, this is generally not because of this mathematical equation. An article published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open investigated the facial relationships of various participants in Miss Universe and Miss Thailand, including the use of the golden section, and discovered that the golden facial relationships simply did not match modern views on facial relationships of beauty. Another study published in Science Direct's Vision Research looked at four experiments to see if the golden ratio (or other proportions) determined which test subjects liked the most. Researchers found a different ratio to determine beauty, but even then, would that work across the board?

“The golden ratio often refers to measurements in the human form, in particular, the proportions in the face or the ratio waist/hip. The waist-hip ratio was investigated and determined in the 80s as a "nice" ratio of 36 to 24 (hence the famous 36-24-36), "says board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Thomas T. Jeneby. The surgeon refers to the way this part was sung in a number of 80s and 90s songs, such as Violent Femmes '35 -24-36 'and Sir Mix-A-Lot's' Baby Got Back'.

“Nowadays, women want wider hips, so the ratio becomes more than 1: 1.6. People's facial relationships are also changing due to fillers and operations, "says Dr. Jeneby, who also wrote Confessions of a Plastic Surgeon.

Simply put, times change, and so do beauty ideals. And then of course there is the fact that these articles still do not apply the so-called Golden Section to male celebrities, but that is an article for another day.