Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra

Erik D. Demaine and Joseph O'Rourke

ISBN 10: 0521857570 / ISBN 13: 9780521857574

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007

Beschreibung

First printing. 8vo. 472 pp. Near Fine. Slightest shelfwear to head of spine.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers x08823

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521857570
• ISBN-13: 9780521857574
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

Emphasizing algorithmic and computational aspects, this fascinating treatment of the geometry of folding and unfolding presents hundreds of results and over 60 open problems. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in mathematics or computer science, this lavishly illustrated book will entertain a broad audience, from school students to researchers.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Erik D. Demaine is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he joined the faculty in 2001. He is the recipient of several awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the NSERC Doctoral Prize. His research interests range throughout algorithms from data structures for improving web searches to the geometry of understanding how proteins relate to the computational difficulty of playing games. He has published more than 150 papers with more than 150 collaborators and coedited the book Tribute to a Mathemagician in honor of the influential recreational mathematician Martin Gardner.

Joseph O'Rourke is the Olin Professor of Computer Science at Smith College and the Chair of the Computer Science Department. He recently completed a one-year appointment as Interim Director of Engineering. He has received several grants and awards, including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars. His research is in the field of computational geometry, where he has published a monograph and a textbook, and he coedited the 1500-page Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry. Thirty-one of his more than one hundred papers published in journals and conference proceedings are coauthored with undergraduates.