Aiding the Teaching of Geometry and Affording Mathematical Recreation: Paper Folding in the Spirit of Sundara Rao of Madras – References

Author(s): 
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)

 

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