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 ...

The ancient and delicate Japanese art of paper folding, or origami, may seem a long way from the hi-tech, highly automated world of twenty-first century automobile manufacturing. However, says ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA CRUZ – Origami and complex mathematical shapes have one thing in common: both require folding. UC Santa Cruz will host an exhibit on the art and mathematics of origami April 8 at the Eloise ...

Dr. Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for more than 40 years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with more than 600 designs cataloged and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you folded a piece of paper in half enough times, it would eventually become thick enough to reach the moon. Perhaps you heard ...

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 ...

Now, he designs and folds pieces for collectors and art galleries, while contributing to a growing field of practical applications in space research, medical technology and other fields. “There’s been ...

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 ...