Rona Gurkewitz is an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for her work on modular origami. [1] [2] She is a professor emerita of computer science at Western Connecticut State University, [3] and the former head of the department of computer science there. [2]
Origami
Gurkewitz became interested in origami after meeting origami pioneer Lillian Oppenheimer at a dinner party and becoming a regular visitor to Oppenheimer's origami get-togethers. [2] She has written several books on origami, exhibited works at international origami shows, [2] supplied a piece for the set design of the premiere of the Rajiv Joseph play Animals Out of Paper, [4] and has made modular origami quilts as well as polyhedra. [2]
Books
With retired mechanical engineer Bennett Arnstein, [2] Gurkewitz is the coauthor of books including:
- 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1996) [5]
- Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality (Dover, 2002) [6]
- Beginner's Book of Modular Origami Polyhedra: The Platonic Solids (Dover, 2008)
With Arnstein and Lewis Simon, she is a coauthor of the second edition of the book Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1999), extended from the first edition by Arnstein and Simon. [7]
References
- ^ "Origami: Doing the Math Without the Numbers", Republican-American, 6 January 2009 – via Mathematical Association of America
- ^ a b c d e f Overton, Penelope (11 January 2009), "Conn. origami master hooked on 'geometry without numbers'", Telegram & Gazette
- ^ Computer Science Faculty and Staff, Western Connecticut State University, retrieved 2020-08-27
- ^ Gluckman, Neil (11 August 2008), "Origami, More Than Paper Critters", Art Around Town, New York Sun
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^ Reviews of 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra:
- Plummer, Robert (December 1996), The Mathematics Teacher, 89 (9): 782,
JSTOR
27970022
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Mathematical Reviews,
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1375920
{{ citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link) - Cannon, Mary Ellen (May 1997), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2 (6): 444–445,
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41181638
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- Plummer, Robert (December 1996), The Mathematics Teacher, 89 (9): 782,
JSTOR
27970022
- ^ Reviews of Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality:
- ^ Reviews of Modular Origami Polyhedra (2nd ed.):