Rona Gurkewitz
American mathematician and computer scientist
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Rona Gurkewitz is an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for her work on modular origami.[1][2] She is a professor emerita of computer science at Western Connecticut State University,[3] and the former head of the department of computer science there.[2]
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.[2] She has written several books on origami, exhibited works at international origami shows,[2] supplied a piece for the set design of the premiere of the Rajiv Joseph play Animals Out of Paper,[4] and has made modular origami quilts as well as polyhedra.[2]
Books
With retired mechanical engineer Bennett Arnstein,[2] Gurkewitz is the coauthor of books including:
- 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1996)[5]
- Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality (Dover, 2002)[6]
- 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.[7]