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Visual thinking in mathematics : an epistemological study / M. Giaquinto.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199285942
  • 9780199285945
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 22
LOC classification:
  • QA8.4 .G534 2007
Contents:
Introduction -- Simple shapes : vision and concepts -- Basic geometrical knowledge -- Geometrical discovery by visualizing -- Diagrams in geogmetric proofs -- Mental number lines -- Visual aspects of calculation -- General theorems from specific images -- Visual thinking in basic analysis -- Symbol manipulation -- Cognition of structure -- Mathematical thinking : algebraic v. geometric?
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 510 GIA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A442154B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.

Introduction -- Simple shapes : vision and concepts -- Basic geometrical knowledge -- Geometrical discovery by visualizing -- Diagrams in geogmetric proofs -- Mental number lines -- Visual aspects of calculation -- General theorems from specific images -- Visual thinking in basic analysis -- Symbol manipulation -- Cognition of structure -- Mathematical thinking : algebraic v. geometric?

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