At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both. Faye E. Goldman's origami, center, on view at the National Museum of Mathematics ...

Origami splash, by Erik and Martin Demaine Black Man, by Eric Joisel (from the collection of Robert Lang) David Huffman, with one of his paper foldings, in 1978. “Origami: Art + Mathematics,” an ...

creativity work hand in hand. Lang has taken his lifelong hobby of origami, and his professional expertise in science and engineering, and combined them in a career that spans books, seminars and an ...

When you have eight different shades of paper and fold four differently colored sheets together at a time, how many unique squares can you create? Charlene Morrow poses that question as she stands in ...

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APPLETON - The rose reaching upward toward a light was born of a single uncut square of paper. Its petals, delicately wrapped into each other, compose a piece that is beautiful in appearance and ...

July 13, Wednesday, 1 p.m. — Origami artist Robert J. Lang of Alamo, Calif., will give this year’s MathFest talk on “From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami.” This free ...

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 ...

Is it math or is it art? That was the question from Glover School third-grader Will Carpineto as teaching artist Motoko walked students through an origami lesson via Zoom. “It’s arty math,” declared ...

The mathematics of origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, will be discussed in a free talk Tuesday at the Virginia Air & Space Center. Robert Lang, an artist who applies the advanced mathematical ...