Joseph O'Rourke

How to Fold It

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discover and understand mathematical theorems through paper folding, starting with high school algebra and geometry through to more advanced concepts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521767354
• ISBN-10: 0521767350
• Artikelnr.: 32557543

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Linkages: 1. Robot arms
2. Straight-line linkages and the pantograph
3. Protein folding and pop-up cards
Part II. Origami: 4. Flat vertex folds
5. Fold and one-cut
6. The shopping bag theorem
Part III. Polyhedra: 7. Durer's problem: edge unfolding
8. Unfolding orthogonal polyhedra
9. Folding polygons to convex polyhedra
10. Further reading
11. Glossary
12. Answers to exercises
13. Permissions and acknowledgments.