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'What a delight! Finally, a book that explains the geometry behind pop-up cards in a simple and straight-forward way with loads of illustrations and web animations to help. I look forward to sharing this gem with my own students.' Thomas Hull, Western New England University 'Pop-Up Geometry is a beautifully written book. This book focuses on the aspect of pop-up structures of computational origami, a recent trend in computational geometry. Once you flip the pages, you will find various colorful figures. These figures nicely give you inspirations of paper art and ideas of the mathematical background of pop-up paper sculptures.' Ryuhei Uehara, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 'There are many books about pop-ups, but only one about the mathematics of how they work. From analyzing standard pop-up mechanisms to advanced computational design, geometry master O'Rourke gives an excellent tour of this wonderful world.' Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'This text can readily be used as a supplement to a geometry course. I also see this book serving as a foundation for a multi-disciplined extracurricular activity called 'Pop-Up Card Design'. This activity would encourage students interested in enhancing their skills in English, Mathematics, and Art as they work together in a cooperative effort to produce Pop-Up cards or Pop-Up books.' Tom French, MAA Reviews 'Complete with vibrantly colored graphics, companion animations that depict the motion described in the book, and templates for the reader to make the pop-up creations the book is analyzing, this book makes it easy for the reader to engage with the material they are learning.' Katelynn Kochalski, Notices of the American Mathematical Society

'What a delight! Finally a book that explains the geometry behind pop-up cards in a simple and straight-forward way with loads of illustrations and web animations to help. I look forward to sharing this gem with my own students.' Thomas Hull, Western New England University 'Pop-Up Geometry is a beautifully written book. This book focuses on the aspect of pop-up structures of computational origami, a recent trend in computational geometry. Once you flip the pages, you will find various colorful figures. These figures nicely give you inspirations of paper art and ideas of the mathematical background of pop-up paper sculptures.' Ryuhei Uehara, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Joseph O'Rourke is Olin Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Mathematics at Smith College. His research is in discrete and computational geometry, developing algorithms for geometric computations. He has won several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987 and the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars in 2001. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2012. He has published more than 165 papers, more than 30 of which were coauthored with undergraduates. He has taught folding and unfolding to students in grade school, middle school, high school, college and graduate school, and to teachers at all educational levels, as well as to researchers in mathematics and computer science. This is his seventh book.

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