Charlene Morrow poses that question as she stands in front of an origami patchwork she made with 228 sheets of paper. That work, “Subtle Uniqueness,” is part of a new show, “Math Unfolded ...

At heart, mathematics is about understanding the rules and patterns of the universe, be they patterns in numbers, in the stock market, or in nature. In the case of origami, we need to look at the ...

Erik is the math genius, having joined MIT at 20, making him the school’s youngest professor ever. His interest in folding and origami led to a MacArthur “genius” grant, dozens of papers ...

This origami structure, called “Green Cycles,” by Erik Demaine and his father Martin required a week of improvisation to assemble. Credit: Renwick Gallery The shape of a Pringle ...

The fourth graders couldn’t take their eyes off their math papers. Sure, they were folding them into foxes instead of solving problems, but with each crease came a level of concentration and ...

"He is actually creating new origami folds, and that's where the math and science come into it. It's how do you take an object and figure out how to create that object out of one contiguous piece ...

“If the Game of Life is Turing complete, origami should be Turing complete too.” Abstractions navigates promising ideas in science and mathematics. Journey with us and join the conversation. See all ...

With this burgeoning field of origami-inspired-design, the question is: can the mathematics of origami be boiled down to one elegant algorithm—a fail-proof guidebook to make any object out of a ...

MIT's Demaine proven this via computational mathematics. Origami tech is often the result of interdisciplinary collaborations. The team behind Harvard's miniature RoboBee (exactly as it sounds ...

The boat, created by the company Oru Kayak, is part of a scientific and technological revolution inspired by the centuries-old art of origami. What began as efforts to understand the math behind ...

At heart, mathematics is about understanding the rules and patterns of the universe, be they patterns in numbers, in the stock market, or in nature. In the case of origami, we need to look at the ...