Math Made Visual: Creating Images for Understanding Mathematics - Couverture rigide

Alsina, Claudi; Nelsen, Roger B.

 
9780883857465: Math Made Visual: Creating Images for Understanding Mathematics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0883857464 ISBN 13 : 9780883857465
Editeur : The Mathematical Association of America, 2006

Synopsis

The object of this book is to show how visualization techniques may be employed to produce pictures that have interest for the creation, communication and teaching of mathematics. Mathematical drawings related to proofs have been produced since antiquity in China, Arabia, Greece and India but only in the last thirty years has there been a growing interest in so-called 'proofs without words.' In this book the authors show that behind most of the pictures 'proving' mathematical relations are some well-understood methods. The first part of the book consists of twenty short chapters, each one describing a method to visualize some mathematical idea (a proof, a concept, an operation,...) and several applications to concrete cases. Following this the book examines general pedagogical considerations concerning the development of visual thinking, practical approaches for making visualizations in the classroom and a discussion of the role that hands-on material plays in this process.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The object of this book is to show how visualization techniques may be employed to produce pictures that have interest for the creation, communication and teaching of mathematics. Mathematical drawings related to proofs have been produced since antiquity in China, Arabia, Greece and India but only in the last thirty years has there been a growing interest in so-called 'proofs without words.' In this book the authors show that behind most of the pictures 'proving' mathematical relations are some well-understood methods. The first part of the book consists of twenty short chapters, each one describing a method to visualize some mathematical idea (a proof, a concept, an operation,...) and several applications to concrete cases. Following this the book examines general pedagogical considerations concerning the development of visual thinking, practical approaches for making visualizations in the classroom and a discussion of the role that hands-on material plays in this process.

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Éditeur
The Mathematical Association of America
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0883857464
ISBN 13 
9780883857465
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
190
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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