Ann Schwartz

Ann Schwartz has created more than a dozen new flexagons. She has presented a new flexagon at every biennial Gathering for Gardner she has attended since 2006 and has given flexagon presentations and workshops at the National Museum of Mathematics (MOMATH) in New York City and that museum’s MOVES conferences. In 2015 she was the guest speaker at the Recreational Math, Puzzles and Games Conference at the Davidson Institute of Science Education, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel; and in 2017 gave the only flexagon presentation at the Seventh International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (7OSME) in Oxford. With Scott Sherman and Dr. Yossi Elran, Ann co-led the Neil Shore Flexagon Workshop at the Davidson Institute in 2019. She coauthored “The Hexa-Dodeca-Flexagon,” a chapter in Homage to a Pied Puzzler (2009, A K Peters, Ltd), and the chapter “Should We Call Them Flexa-Bands?” that was published in The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects - Volume 3 (Princeton University Press).