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Rona Gurkewitz is an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for her work on modular origami. She is a professor emerita of computer science at Western Connecticut State University, and the former head of the department of computer science there.

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. She has written several books on origami, exhibited works at international origami shows, supplied a piece for the set design of the premiere of the Rajiv Joseph play Animals Out of Paper, and has made modular origami quilts as well as polyhedra.

Books

With retired mechanical engineer Bennett Arnstein, Gurkewitz is the coauthor of books including:

• 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1996)
• Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality (Dover, 2002)
• 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.

References

1. "Origami: Doing the Math Without the Numbers", Republican-American, 6 January 2009 – via Mathematical Association of America
2. ^ Overton, Penelope (11 January 2009), "Conn. origami master hooked on 'geometry without numbers'", Telegram & Gazette
3. Computer Science Faculty and Staff, Western Connecticut State University, retrieved 2020-08-27
4. Gluckman, Neil (11 August 2008), "Origami, More Than Paper Critters", Art Around Town, New York Sun
5. Reviews of 3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra:
   • Plummer, Robert (December 1996), The Mathematics Teacher, 89 (9): 782, JSTOR 27970022{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Barnette, David (1997), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1375920{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Cannon, Mary Ellen (May 1997), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2 (6): 444–445, JSTOR 41181638{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Blackwell, Joan (March 1999), "Review", School Science and Mathematics, 99 (3), Wiley: 160, doi:10.1111/j.1949-8594.1999.tb17467.x, ProQuest 195202376
6. Reviews of Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality:
   • Murphey, Bonnie (January 2004), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 9 (5): 288, JSTOR 41181919{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Kessler, Charlotte (January 2004), The Mathematics Teacher, 97 (1): 78, JSTOR 20871510{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
7. Reviews of Modular Origami Polyhedra (2nd ed.):
   • Böhm, Johannes, "none", zbMATH, Zbl 1059.00005
   • Johnston, Christopher (September 2002), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 8 (1): 59, 62, JSTOR 41181231{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

External links

• Rona Gurkewitz' Modular Origami Polyhedra Systems Page

• Living people
• 20th-century American mathematicians
• American computer scientists
• American women computer scientists
• Western Connecticut State University faculty
• Origami artists
• 21st-century American women
• 20th-century American women mathematicians