Joseph O'Rourke

	Joseph O'Rourke Olin Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus; Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA jorourke@smith.edu (orourke@cs.smith.edu is redirected and may disappear)
Research Summary	Faculty Bio Sketch ; Wikipedia page

The Mathematics of Origami.
Cambridge University Press, to appear, Jan 2026. ISBN 978-1-009-68735-5.
Reshaping Convex Polyhedra.
J. O'Rourke and Costin Vilcu.
Research monograph, Springer-Verlag, Mar. 2024. 243 pages, 125 figures, 133 references.
ISBN 978-3-031-47510-8.
Pop-Up Geometry: The Mathematics behind Pop-Up Cards.
Cambridge University Press, xii+129 pages, 143 figures. March 2022. ISBN 978-1-009-09626-3.
How To Fold It: The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra.
Cambridge University Press, 177 pages. ISBN 978-0521145473. 2011. Amazon link.
Discrete and Computational Geometry. 2nd Edition.
Satyan Devadoss and J. O'Rourke
Princeton University Press, 264 pages. ISBN 978-0-691-26620-6. 2025.
2nd Edition Princeton link: official publication date: 8July2025.
Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra
Erik D. Demaine and J. O'Rourke
Cambridge University Press, July 2007. 472 pages, 412 figures. ISBN: 9780521715225. Japanese translation, 2009.
Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry.
J. E. Goodman, J. O'Rourke, Csaba Toth, editors, CRC Press. Third Edition, 2017, 1937 pages. Amazon link
Computational Geometry in C. Cambridge University Press, Second Edition, September 1998. Amazon link.
Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms, Oxford University Press, 1987. Available online!

O'Rourke papers online	The Open Problems Project (13Oct2020: Moved to GitHub)
Computational Geometry in C: Code for download	MathOverflow etc.:

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