Rona Gurkewitz
{{short description|American mathematician and computer scientist}}
{{use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=August 2020}}
Rona Gurkewitz is an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for her work on modular origami.{{r|repam|telegram}} She is a professor emerita of computer science at Western Connecticut State University,{{r|wcsu}} and the former head of the department of computer science there.{{r|telegram}}
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.{{r|telegram}} She has written several books on origami, exhibited works at international origami shows,{{r|telegram}} supplied a piece for the set design of the premiere of the Rajiv Joseph play Animals Out of Paper,{{r|critters}} and has made modular origami quilts as well as polyhedra.{{r|telegram}}
Books
With retired mechanical engineer Bennett Arnstein,{{r|telegram}} Gurkewitz is the coauthor of books including:
- 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1996){{r|3dgo}}
- Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality (Dover, 2002){{r|mmo}}
- 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.{{r|mop}}
References
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Reviews of 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra:
- {{citation
| last = Plummer | first = Robert
| date = December 1996
| issue = 9
| journal = The Mathematics Teacher
| jstor = 27970022
| page = 782
| title = none
| volume = 89}}
- {{citation
| last = Barnette | first = David
| journal = Mathematical Reviews
| mr = 1375920
| title = none
| year = 1997}}
- {{citation
| last = Cannon | first = Mary Ellen
| date = May 1997
| issue = 6
| journal = Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
| jstor = 41181638
| pages = 444–445
| title = none
| volume = 2}}
- {{citation
| last = Blackwell | first = Joan
| date = March 1999
| doi = 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1999.tb17467.x
| issue = 3
| journal = School Science and Mathematics
| page = 160
| publisher = Wiley
| title = Review
| url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/195202376
| volume = 99| id = {{ProQuest|195202376}}
}}
Reviews of Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality:
- {{citation
| last = Murphey | first = Bonnie
| date = January 2004
| issue = 5
| journal = Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
| jstor = 41181919
| page = 288
| title = none
| volume = 9}}
- {{citation
| last = Kessler | first = Charlotte
| date = January 2004
| issue = 1
| journal = The Mathematics Teacher
| jstor = 20871510
| page = 78
| title = none
| volume = 97}}
Reviews of Modular Origami Polyhedra (2nd ed.):
- {{citation
| last = Böhm | first = Johannes
| contribution = none
| title = zbMATH
| zbl = 1059.00005}}
- {{citation
| last = Johnston | first = Christopher
| date = September 2002
| issue = 1
| journal = Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
| jstor = 41181231
| pages = 59, 62
| title = none
| volume = 8}}
{{citation|url=https://www.nysun.com/arts/origami-more-than-paper-critters/83561/|title=Origami, More Than Paper Critters|newspaper=New York Sun|department=Art Around Town|first=Neil|last=Gluckman|date=August 11, 2008}}
{{citation|url=https://www.maa.org/news/math-news/origami-doing-the-math-without-the-numbers|title=Origami: Doing the Math Without the Numbers|date=January 6, 2009|newspaper=Republican-American|via=Mathematical Association of America}}
{{citation|title=Conn. origami master hooked on 'geometry without numbers'|url=https://www.telegram.com/article/20090111/NEWS/901110471|date=January 11, 2009|newspaper=Telegram & Gazette|first=Penelope|last=Overton}}
}}
External links
- [http://make-origami.com/RonaGurkewitz/home.php Rona Gurkewitz' Modular Origami Polyhedra Systems Page]
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Category:American women computer scientists
Category:Western Connecticut State University faculty