Tom Hull started making origami figures when he was 8 years old. By the time he was in graduate school at the University of Rhode Island, he had found a way to combine his passion for origami with a career in mathematics. Now at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., he is a member of a small but growing community of origami enthusiasts intent on pursuing the mathematical intricacies of their craft.
In his efforts to collect everything that he could find linking origami and math (and in his own research efforts), Hull has discovered not only the obvious links between origami and geometry but also intriguing intersections of origami with other fields of mathematics, such as algebra, number theory, and combinatorics.