Tom Hull (mathematician)
Thomas C. Hull is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Franklin & Marshall College{{citation|url=https://www.fandm.edu/directory/thomas-hull.html|title=Thomas C. Hull|work=Directory|publisher=Franklin & Marshall College|access-date=2024-10-11}} and is known for his expertise in the mathematics of paper folding.{{citation|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/people.html|publisher=PBS|title=Between the Folds: The People|accessdate=2019-07-27}}{{citation|url=https://www.maa.org/news/math-news/professor-links-origami-and-math|title=Professor Links Origami and Math|newspaper=Nashua Telegraph|date=May 30, 2007|via=Mathematical Association of America}}{{citation|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professor-Uses-Japanese-Art-to/100391|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=February 13, 1998|title=Professor Uses Japanese Art to Teach Mathematical Concepts}}
Career
Hull was an undergraduate at Hampshire College. He earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Rhode Island.{{citation|url=http://origametry.net/CV/cvhull-23.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|year=2023|accessdate=2025-04-08}} His 1997 dissertation, Some Problems in List Coloring Bipartite Graphs, involved graph coloring, and was supervised by Nancy Eaton.{{mathgenealogy|id=49652}}
Prior to his appointment at Franklin & Marshall College, Hull taught at Merrimack College (1997–2008) and Western New England University (2008–2023). He has also taught at the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics for many years: as junior staff from 1991 to 1995, and as senior staff in 1998 to 2007. Since 2013, he has taught at MathILy, an intensive residential summer program for mathematically excellent high school students.
Hull was a member of the board of directors of origami association OrigamiUSA from 1995 to 2008.{{citation|title=History|date=19 March 2008 |publisher=OrigamiUSA|url=https://www.origamiusa.org/history|accessdate=2019-07-27}}. See linked spreadsheet of past board members.
Author
Hull is the author or co-author of several books on origami, including:
- Origametry: Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding (Cambridge University Press, 2021)Reviews of Origametry:
- {{citation|title=none|first=Alan S.|last=McRae|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=4411341}}
- {{citation|title=none|first=Ana Rita|last=Pires|journal=EMS Magazine|publisher=European Mathematical Society|issue=125|date=September 2022|pages=49–50 |doi=10.4171/MAG/98|s2cid=252257915 |doi-access=free}}
- Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics (AK Peters, 2006; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2013)Reviews of Project Origami:
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Erhard|last=Quaisser|zbl=1122.00010}}
- {{citation|title=none|journal=zbMATH|first=Andreas|last=Filler|language=German|zbl=1263.97003}}
- {{citation|first=Steven|last=Frankel|title=Review|journal=MAA Reviews|date=July 2006|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/project-origami-activities-for-exploring-mathematics}}
- {{citation|first=Helena|last=Verrill|date=May 2007|title=Review|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200705/rev-verrill-web.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|pages=623–625|volume=54|issue=5}}
- {{citation|first=Jean J.|last=Pedersen|authorlink=Jean Pedersen|journal=Mathematical Reviews|year=2008|title=none|mr=2330113}}
- {{citation|first=Sue|last=Pope|title=none|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|volume=92|issue=525|date=November 2008|page=590|jstor=27821875|doi=10.1017/S0025557200184098|s2cid=193763135 }}
- {{citation|last=Kubik|first=Bethany|journal=Mathematics & Computer Education|date=Spring 2013|volume=47|issue=2|title=Review|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/88215819|pages=144–145}}
- Russian Origami: 40 Original Models Designed by the Top Folders in the Former Soviet Union (with Sergei Afonkin, St. Martin's Press, 1998)
- Origami, Plain and Simple (with Robert E. Neale, St. Martin's Press, 1994)
He is also featured in the 2010 origami documentary Between the Folds.
Awards and honors
With Tomohiro Tachi of the University of Tokyo, Hull was the recipient of the 2016 A. T. Yang Memorial Award in Theoretical Kinematics of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, for their joint work on predicting the motion of rigid origami patterns when forces are applied to them in their flat state.{{citation|url=https://www1.wne.edu/news/2016/09/tom-hull-award.cfm|title=Dr. Thomas Hull receives national recognition for research in theoretical kinematics|publisher=Western New England University|work=University News|date=September 14, 2016}}; {{citation|url=https://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/unit-awards/at-yang-memorial-award|title=A. T. Yang Memorial Award|publisher=ASME|accessdate=November 6, 2019}}
References
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External links
- [http://origametry.net/ Home page]
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=V49ES7oAAAAJ Google scholar profile]
- [https://www.youtube.com/user/tomhull17 Origami videos on Youtube]
- [http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_17184.aspx Innovative Math: from Origami to Calculus]. Report from a visit of Hull to Phillips Exeter Academy, April 14, 2009.
- [http://www.mathily.org MathILy Website]
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