Rona Gurkewitz

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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]

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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:

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

  1. ↑ "Origami: Doing the Math Without the Numbers", Republican-American , 6 January 2009 – via Mathematical Association of America
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Overton, Penelope (11 January 2009), "Conn. origami master hooked on 'geometry without numbers'", Telegram & Gazette
  3. ↑ Computer Science Faculty and Staff, Western Connecticut State University, retrieved 2020-08-27
  4. ↑ Gluckman, Neil (11 August 2008), "Origami, More Than Paper Critters", Art Around Town, New York Sun
  5. ↑ Reviews of 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality:
    • Murphey, Bonnie (January 2004), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 9 (5): 288, JSTOR   41181919 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Kessler, Charlotte (January 2004), The Mathematics Teacher, 97 (1): 78, JSTOR   20871510 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ↑ Reviews of Modular Origami Polyhedra (2nd ed.):
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