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Origami, the art of paper folding, was developed several centuries ago in Japan and nowhas aworldwide following. In the late twentieth century the mathematical theory of origami was developed. Its foundation is a set of seven axioms, the Huzita–Hatori axioms, named after Humiaki Huzita who formalized the first six axioms andKoshiro Hatori who found the seventh. Jacques Justin published all seven axioms several years before Huzita and Hatori, and Margherita P. Beloch formulated the sixth axiom in 1936. Nevertheless, the axioms as known as the Huzita-Hatori axioms.
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Ben-Ari, M. (2022). The Axioms of Origami. In: Mathematical Surprises. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13566-8_10
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