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Pop-Up Geometry: The Mathematics Behind Pop-Up Cards - Hardcover

O'Rourke, Joseph

 
9781009098403: Pop-Up Geometry: The Mathematics Behind Pop-Up Cards
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1009098403 ISBN 13: 9781009098403
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Explores the beautifully intricate dynamics of pop-up cards using high school mathematics, making tangible what is often dry and abstract.

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About the Author

Joseph O'Rourke is Olin Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Mathematics at Smith College. His research is in discrete and computational geometry, developing algorithms for geometric computations. He has won several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987 and the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars in 2001. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2012. He has published more than 165 papers, more than 30 of which were coauthored with undergraduates. He has taught folding and unfolding to students in grade school, middle school, high school, college and graduate school, and to teachers at all educational levels, as well as to researchers in mathematics and computer science. This is his seventh book.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009098403
ISBN 13 
9781009098403
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
142