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A History of Folding in Mathematics: Mathematizing the Margins

A History of Folding in Mathematics: Mathematizing the Margins

Friedman, Michael

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Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, Book 59

Sports GeneralGeneral MathematicsGeometry

ISBN10: 3030102092
ISBN13: 9783030102098
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: Jan 15 2019
Pages: 419
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s). This comes as no surprise, since with few exceptions paper folding was seldom considered as a mathematical practice, let alone as a mathematical procedure of inference or proof that could prompt novel mathematical discoveries. A few questions immediately arise: Why did paper folding become a non-instrument? What caused the marginalisation of this technique? And how was the mathematical knowledge, which was nevertheless transmitted and prompted by paper folding, later treated and conceptualised?

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