Project Origami - Activities for Exploring Mathematics, Second Edition

List of contents

Introduction. Folding Equilateral Triangles in a Square. Origami Trigonometry. Dividing a Length into Equal Nths: Fujimoto Approximation. Dividing a Length into Equal Nths Exactly. Origami Helix. Folding a Parabola. Can Origami Trisect an Angle? Solving Cubic Equations. Lill’s Method. Folding Strips into Knots. Haga’s Origamics. Modular Star Ring. Folding a Butterfly Bomb. Molly’s Hexahedron. Business Card Modulars. Five Intersecting Tetrahedra. Making Origami Buckyballs. Making Origami Tori. Modular Menger Sponge. Folding and Coloring a Crane. Exploring Flat Vertex Folds.Impossible Crease Patterns. Folding a Square Twist. Counting Flat Folds. Self-Similar Wave. Matrix Model of Flat Vertex Folds. Matrix Model of 3D Vertex Folds. Origami and Homomorphisms. Rigid Folds 1: Gaussian Curvature. Rigid Folds 2: Spherical Trigonometry. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

About the author

Thomas Hull

Summary

Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics, Second Edition presents a flexible, discovery-based approach to learning origami-math topics

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hull, Hull Thomas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138427211
• ISBN: 978-1-138-42721-1
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Basic principles; MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, Mathematics, Mathematical foundations, Sudoku & Number Puzzles, Sudoku and number puzzles, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Sudoku