On Dec 13 2014, Kevin Lee <insomniacfol...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: > On December 12th the 'Numberphile' channel on YouTube (math focused, 1 > million plus subscribers) posted a video, 'How to Trisect an Angle with > Origami', which list members might find of interest - though I'm sure the > material is very familiar to them. The link, should anyone be interested, is: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2lYcggGpc
The video is lovely, but I can't help being annoyed that the first discoverer of a method to use origami to solve this problem--Hisashe Abe of Hokkaido University--is nowhere in the video (body or credits) mentioned by name. It is as if origami is this general pool of knowledge and there are no pioneers worth crediting for their efforts or discoveries. (Meanwhile in this presenter's companion video on "Euclid's Big Problem", Galois and Wantzel--mathematicians--ARE mentioned by name.) This keeps happening. A few months ago Sharon Laubach <wereg...@yahoo.com>) posted a link on this list to some neat work by some robot scientists: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robots-get-flexible-and-torqued-up-with-deformable-origami-wheels The article takes its cue from what is said in the video by the Korean group, and states: "...One of the groups was from Seoul National University's BioRobotics Laboratory, led by Professor Kyu-Jin Cho. Researchers there have designed a clever robotic wheel based on one of the most famous origami patterns, the magic ball pattern. " The "magic ball pattern" may or may not be one of the most famous in origami, but it most certainly was invented by SOMEONE---so far as I know it is Yuri Shumakov. Would it have cost the authors anything to mention the name of the person whose idea they built upon? Somewheres? We need to start insisting on more respect for our field. Saadya
