Project Focus

I have decided to focus on origami for my essay. I chose this because it’s not an obvious choice, and yet it seems to have much more to do with maths than anybody would usually suspect.

Origami came to my attention for this project because I found an article about Martin Demaine and his son Erik, who both work at MIT. Martin is an artist and sculptor, and Erik is a math prodigy who got into Canada's Dalhousie University at the age of 12 and completed his bachelor's degree at the age of 14.