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
  1. "Origami: Doing the Math Without the Numbers", Republican-American, 6 January 2009 – via Mathematical Association of America
  2. 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 41181919CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Kessler, Charlotte (January 2004), The Mathematics Teacher, 97 (1): 78, JSTOR 20871510CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. Reviews of Modular Origami Polyhedra (2nd ed.):
    • Böhm, Johannes, "none", zbMATH, Zbl 1059.00005
    • Johnston, Christopher (September 2002), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 8 (1): 59, 62, JSTOR 41181231CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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