Origametry - Hull, Thomas C.

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Biographie:
Thomas C. Hull is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Western New England University and a world expert on the mathematics of origami. He has won the A. T. Yang Memorial Award in Theoretical Kinematics for his research, and his Five Intersecting Tetrahedra was named among the top 10 origami models of all time by the British Origami Society.

Sommaire:
Introduction; Part I. Geometric Constructions: 1. Examples and basic folds; 2. Solving equations via folding; 3. Origami algebra; 4. Beyond classic origami; Part II. The Combinatorial Geometry of Flat Origami: 5. Flat vertex folds: local properties; 6. Multiple-vertex flat folds: global properties; 7. Counting flat folds; 8. Other flat folding problems; Part III. Algebra, Topology, and Analysis in Origami: 9. Origami homomorphisms; 10. Folding manifolds; 11. An analytic approach to isometric foldings; Part IV. Non-Flat Folding: 12. Rigid origami; 13. Rigid foldings; 14. Rigid origami theory; References; Index.