How to Fold It Hardback: The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra - Hardcover

O’eRourke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521767350 ISBN 13: 9780521767354

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2011

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With the help of 200 color figures, Joseph O'Rourke helps readers discover mathematical theorems through folding paper. He explains these fascinating folding problems starting from high school algebra and geometry and introducing more advanced concepts in tangible contexts as they arise. The book's website, http://www.howtofoldit.org, has dynamic animations of many of the foldings and downloadable templates for readers to fold or cut out.

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'The major theorems presented are remarkable - results that may surprise the reader include the fact that, with the right folds, any shape or collection of shapes (even ones with holes in) ... composed of straight lines may be cut out from a sheet of paper with just a single cut.' London Mathematical Society Newsletter

'In this beautiful and inspiring book with many colour figures the reader can find a fascinating mathematical approach to linkages, foldings and unfoldings. Many exercises with detailed solutions give the reader the chance to control the acquired skills.' Hansueli Hosli, Zentralblatt MATH

'... a great book for someone who wants to learn about the mathematics behind origami without being overwhelmed by the mathematics itself. This is a great book for a high school or undergraduate student to get introduced to the open problems in computational origami.' Brittany Terese Fasy and David L. Millman, SIGACT News

Biografía del autor:

Joseph O'Rourke is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department, a Professor of Mathematics, and Director of Arts and Technology at Smith College. His research is in computational geometry, developing algorithms for geometric computations. He has won several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987 and the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars in 2001. He has published more than 145 papers in journals and conference proceedings, more than 30 of which were coauthored with undergraduates. He has taught folding and unfolding to students in grade school, middle school, high school, college and graduate school, and to teachers - of grade school, middle school, and high school - professors, and researchers. This is his sixth book.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521767350
• ISBN 13: 9780521767354
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192