Rona Gurkewitz is an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for her work on modular origami.
[1][2] She is a professor emerita of computer science at Western Connecticut State University,[3] and the former head of the department of computer science there.
[2] Gurkewitz became interested in origami after meeting origami pioneer Lillian Oppenheimer at a dinner party and becoming a regular visitor to Oppenheimer's origami get-togethers.
[2] She has written several books on origami, exhibited works at international origami shows,[2] supplied a piece for the set design of the premiere of the Rajiv Joseph play Animals Out of Paper,[4] and has made modular origami quilts as well as polyhedra.
[2] With retired mechanical engineer Bennett Arnstein,[2] Gurkewitz is the coauthor of books including: With Arnstein and Lewis Simon, she is a coauthor of the second edition of the book Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1999), extended from the first edition by Arnstein and Simon.