• RecordNumber
    2065
  • Author

    O'Rourke, Joseph

  • Title

    How to fold it: the mathematics of linkages, origami, and polyhedra

  • Author Statement
    Joseph ORourke
  • Publication
    Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Year
    2011
  • Collation
    xii, 177 p.: ill. (chiefly col.) 24 cm
  • Notes
    Includes index , Machine generated contents note: Part I. Linkages: 1. Robot arms; 2. Straight-line linkages and the pantograph; 3. Protein folding and pop-up cards; Part II. Origami: 4. Flat vertex folds; 5. Fold and one-cut; 6. The shopping bag theorem; Part III. Polyhedra: 7. Durer's problem: edge unfolding; 8. Unfolding orthogonal polyhedra; 9. Folding polygons to convex polyhedra; 10. Further reading; 11. Glossary; 12. Answers to exercises; 13. Permissions and acknowledgments.
  • Subject

    Liaison theory (Mathematics) , Origami - Mathematics , Polyhedra , Protein folding

  • LC Class
    QA
  • LC Number
    564
  • LC CutterNumber
    .O76H6
  • LC Date
    2011