I just got this email from the computer science mailing list:
This Friday, the College of Science is hosting Dr. Robert Lang, who
will be visiting USU to talk about the connections between
mathematics, science and art through origami folding. Robert is a graduate of Caltech in engineering and applied physics, and the recipient of their Distinguished Alumni Award.While he is here on campus, we’ve arranged for some informal time for students and faculty to visit with Robert and talk about his career and current activities. It should be of interest to students and faculty alike. Please join us:
—> Dr. Robert J. Lang
—> FRIDAY, 2 April 2010
—> 3:00 – 4:30pm
—> College of Science Conference Room, ESLC 245DAdditionally, Robert will be giving the Science Unwrapped Lecture that evening:
—> “Math’s Paper Trail: The Origins of Mathematics and Origami”
—> Dr. Robert J. Lang
—> FRIDAY, 2 April 2010
—> 7:00pm
—> ESLC 130
—> www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped/You can see some of Robert’s origami creations (some of the most complex ever folded) on his website: langorigami.com
You can also see a short 20 minute presentation on Math and Origami Robert gave at TED in 2008: www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.html
Totally go to this, everybody. Make sure to check his site here, it’s amazing. Look out, an Allosaurus!
And I’ve just spent the last 45 minutes reading about origami axioms and angle quintisection.
Apparently no one around here is interested in the mathematics of paper folding.
For shame, you guys. For shame.
Interested. Just not a commenter.
This is now the most paradoxical comment ever.
This sentence is false.