A History of Folding in Mathematics Mathematizing the Margins /

• Main Author: Friedman, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, 59
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Geometry.; Mathematical logic.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History of Science.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

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 the cube root of 2 with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• From the 16th Century Onwards: Folding Polyhedra. New Epistemological Horizons?
• Prolog to the 19th Century: Accepting Folding as a Method of Inference
• The 19th Century - What Can and Cannot be (Re)presented: On Models and Kindergartens
• Towards the Axiomatization, Operationalization and Algebraization of the Fold
• The Axiomatization(s) of the Fold
• Appendix I: Margherita Beloch Piazzolla: "Alcune applicazioni del metodo del ripiegamento della carta di Sundara Row"
• Appendix II: Deleuze, Leibniz and the Unmathematical Fold
• Bibliography
• List of Figures.