Biography:Rona Gurkewitz
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, January 6, 2009, https://www.maa.org/news/math-news/origami-doing-the-math-without-the-numbers
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Overton, Penelope (January 11, 2009), "Conn. origami master hooked on 'geometry without numbers'", Telegram & Gazette, https://www.telegram.com/article/20090111/NEWS/901110471
- ↑ Computer Science Faculty and Staff, Western Connecticut State University, https://www.wcsu.edu/cs/computer-science-faculty/, retrieved 2020-08-27
- ↑ Gluckman, Neil (August 11, 2008), "Origami, More Than Paper Critters", New York Sun, https://www.nysun.com/arts/origami-more-than-paper-critters/83561/
- ↑ Reviews of 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra:
- Plummer, Robert (December 1996), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 89 (9): 782
- Barnette, David (1997), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Cannon, Mary Ellen (May 1997), "none", Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 2 (6): 444–445
- Blackwell, Joan (March 1999), "Review", School Science and Mathematics (Wiley) 99 (3): 160, doi:10.1111/j.1949-8594.1999.tb17467.x, ProQuest 195202376, https://www.proquest.com/docview/195202376
- ↑ Reviews of Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality:
- Murphey, Bonnie (January 2004), "none", Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 9 (5): 288
- Kessler, Charlotte (January 2004), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 97 (1): 78
- ↑ Reviews of Modular Origami Polyhedra (2nd ed.):
- Böhm, Johannes, "none", zbMATH
- Johnston, Christopher (September 2002), "none", Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 8 (1): 59, 62
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