Joseph O'Rourke
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Joseph O'Rourke
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Mathematician and Computer Scientist, Smith College, USA.
https://cs.smith.edu/~jorourke/

Polyhedron displayed in banner has max volume of all foldings from a square.
Besides #MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami, neglected to include also: #ArtMath #Mathematics and 🧪
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Each annulus alternates mountain folds with valley folds.
It is not yet proved that this folding "exists" in the sense that only the circular creases are necessary. Strong numerical evidence, but not formally proved.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In fact in this example, 3 guards suffice. Minimal guarding is an NP-hard problem, i.e., intractable.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
These triangles are known to have a periodic billiard path: (1) All acute triangles. (2) All right triangles. (3) All rational triangles. (4) All obtuse triangles with obtuse angle smaller than 5 pi/8 (the 112.4 deg that I quoted). #MathSky #Mathematics #Geometry #Billiards
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sharp eyes to notice the two perpendicular bounces. Probably not for all triangles, I agree.
October 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Beautiful indeed. And with recent results from the study of translation surfaces.
October 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sure. Have them email me, [email protected].
September 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
See also: "Why can't a nonabelian group be 75% abelian?" mathoverflow.net/q/211159/6094
September 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I wonder in which dimensions is the cylinder/sphere volume ratio rational?
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September 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
p.4 of their paper details the construction. "the Noperthedron has 3·30=90 vertices." They set three pts C1,C2,C3 and then apply the cyclic group C_30 to each.
August 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Rupert property requires the convex polyhedron P to tunnel by translation through an isometric copy of P. I wonder if twisting while translating would permit any P---even the "Noperthedron"---to pass through itself? #Mathematics #Geometry #MathSky
August 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Yes, the authors clearly had fun! :-)
August 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM