John Montroll

John Montroll

John Montroll is an American master origami artist and prolific author, well-known by paper-folding enthusiasts throughout the world.

Biography

John Montroll was born in Washington, D.C.The Origamian, Vol.9, Issue 3, 1970, Published by the Origami Center]

Montroll mastered his first origami book, Honda's How to make Origami, at the age of six, the same age he began creating his own origami animalsThe Paper, Issue 55, Summer 1996, The Magazine of OrigamiUSA] . He became a member of the Origami Center of America at age twelve. He attended his first origami convention at age 14. Montroll now teaches mathematics at St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, D.C, teaching small groups of advanced math students, AB and BC Calculus. He even teaches an Origami class. John Montroll is the only known person in the world who can whistle in 5 octaves. He has shown this talent at 2 Whistling conventions in Louisburg, North Carolina. He is also adept at playing the piano and the recorder. He also was a member of a design team for a nuclear submarine.

John Montroll pioneered modern origami with the publication of his first book, Origami for the Enthusiast; Dover Publications, 1980, which was the first origami book where each model is folded from single square sheet and no cuts.Fact|date=July 2008 In the same book he also introduced the origami term "double rabbit ear fold".

Publications

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* "" (with Andrew Montroll); Antroll Pub. Co., 1990
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Notes

External links

* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/search.html?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dblended&keywords=john+montroll Amazon.com]


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