SANTA CRUZ – Origami and complex mathematical shapes have one thing in common: both require folding. UC Santa Cruz will host an exhibit on the art and mathematics of origami April 8 at the Eloise ...

Many of us could happily fold a paper crane, yet few feel confident solving an equation like x³ – 3 x² – x + 3 = 0, to find a value for x. Both activities, however, share similar skills: precision, ...

When you have eight different shades of paper and fold four differently colored sheets together at a time, how many unique squares can you create? Charlene Morrow poses that question as she stands in ...

SANTA CRUZ – Intricate dragons and poison dart frogs folded from paper join complex sculptures of concentric circles in a new exhibit that looks at the interface of origami and mathematics. Origami: ...

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December 5, 2008 Robert Lang laughs in the face of your paper crane. This former NASA engineer and Ph.D in Physics has spent the last seven years as a professional Origami expert after using computer ...

For Thomas C. Hull, mathematics is about more than numbers and functions: It's about origami – or is the inverse correct? Nonetheless, the associate professor of mathematics at Western New England ...

Something like a small paper container ... ... It opens in a flash. A foldable structure like an accordion Various patterns are born from one sheet of paper, such as ...

HUMBLE sheets of paper became mathematical marvels at a paper-folding workshop hosted by a television expert. Channel Four's Liz Meehan was at Teesside University on Saturday, to pass on tips to local ...

CONVERSATIONS AT THE International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education often pause for a hand to dart into a pocket, emerge with a square of plain paper and fluently fold it up to ...