Tom Hull's Home Page

Hi! Welcome to my web page. I finished my Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Rhode Island in 1997. My dissertation was on list coloring bipartite graphs, but now I mostly study the mathematics of origami (paper folding).

I'm currently an associate professor of applied mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

My new book Origametry, Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding has come out! It is published by Cambridge University Press, and is slowly being sent to countries around the world. (I have a friend in Australia who got her copy before I got mine!) It can be ordered from the publisher. ALSO I've made an Errata page for the book, because of course there are errors!

• Current position: Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Franklin & Marshall College
• Office: Stager Hall 209
• Phone: 717-358-4538
• Email: thomas.hull@fandm.edu
• My Origami-Math Research Corner
• My curriculum vitae as well as a list of my papers, and my papers on the arXiv.
• Grant support: I am currently in the final (no-cost extension) year of an NSF standard research grant Configuration Spaces of Rigid Origami.
  I also have been awarded another NSF grant! RUI: Configuration Spaces of Flexible Polyhedral Surfaces. W00t!

Also...
• Videos of lectures that I have given at various places and times.
• My flickr photo gallery
• YouTube Channel (where I put video instructions for some of my origami models)
• I used to do a radio show, Airwave Anarchy for WNEK (which is my former school WNE's student-run radio station). When I was in grad school I had a radio show on WRIU 90.3FM. Sometimes I put shows up on my SoundCloud account.

In the Fall 2024 semester I am teaching          MAT 110 Calculus II,              Section B MWF 12:15pm - 1:20pm          MAT 112 Intro to Higher Mathematics,              MWF 10:00am - 10:50pm      In the Spring 2025 semester I am teaching          MAT 229 Linear Algebra and Differential Equations,             MWF 11:00am - 12:05pm          MAT 372 Origami Math,             MWF 1:30pm - 2:20pm      Please Email me if you have any questions about, well, anything!

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There are a lot of things on this site. As it's grown they've gotten all inter-mingled and some of the links go in circles. Below is a list of the main things here, but feel free to explore!

Origami-related

• Origami Math Pages
  LOTS of stuff there, including diagrams of models, tutorials, animations, a bibliography, and links. Check it out! (Note, though, that many parts are outdated and need to be revised.)
• Origami Model Gallery
• Every day is Halloween! Flapping Bat Action Model
• Origami CD Case PDF Diagrams, GIF Diagrams
  This has been a very popular model. Some folks at Michigan Engineering Software and Hardware put together a script that lets you type in song titles and will print them out onto paper that is ready to be folded into the case. It's at www.papercdcase.com
• Information on the APA imagiro
• Origami, Plain and Simple by Robert Neale and me in 1994, but now only available as an ebook. It contains lots of simple origami models.
• Russian Origami by Sergei Afonkin and me in 1998, now only in ebook format. It contains many simple origami models created by Russian paper folders.

Student-related

• Courses I've taught at WNE:
  Undergraduate
       MATH 133 Calculus I
       MATH 134 Calculus II
       MATH 235 Calculus III
       MATH 306 Linear Algebra
       MATH 371 Modern Aspects of Geometry
       MATH 375 Creative Problem Solving
       MATH 378 Combinatorics
       MATH 379 Graph Theory
       MATH 390 Origami, Math in Creasing
       MATH 412 Topology
       MATH 418 Modern Algebra
       MATH 421 Real Analysis
       MATH 427 Complex Analysis
       MATH 490 Real Analysis II
  Graduate (MAMT)
       MAMT 540 Calculus Revisited
       MAMT 544 Creative Problem Solving
       MAMT 550 Discrete Mathematics
       MAMT 552 Geometry Revisited
       MAMT 564 Analysis
       MAMT 566 Algebraic Structures
       MAMT 574 Origami in Math and Education
       MAMT 490 Topology and Fractals
  
• Mathematical Methods in Origami, which I taught at the University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus in December of 2015. Here is a link to the web page for the class!
• Here are some web pages of courses I've taught in the past (at Merrimack College):
  MA 114A Discrete Mathematics
  MA 219A Calculus III, Fall 06
  MA 223A Topics in Geometry, Fall 00, Fall 06
  MA 244A Combinatorics,
  MA 343A Intro to Real Analysis (Fall 99, Fall 01, Fall 03),
  MA 323A Combinatorial Geometry
• Mathematica Labs for Calc III. I developed these during a year I spent teaching at the University of Cincinnati.

Math-related

• Curriculum vitae
  This might not be my official CV, and may need to be updated. If you want an official one, email me and I'll send you a PDF of the most recent version.
• Papers. (Like, research papers and preprints)
• Tom's Origami-Math Research Corner, where I try to maintain a list of my active research projects and with whom I'm working.
• Job interview advice
• HEY! I edited the proceedings of the 3rd International Meeting of Origami Science, Math, and Education (3OSME). Take a look at the table of contents.