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OMDoc – An Open Markup Format for Mathematical Documents [version 1.2]: Foreword by Allan Bundy

By Michael Kohlhase (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2006
ISBN
3540378979, 9783540378976
DOI
10.1007/11826095
Open Library ID
OL9056818M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3626050 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4180 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition
1
Pages
428\425
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2011-02-14 12:09:19
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Informatgeneral; Library Science

Description

Computers arechanging the way wethink. Of course,nearly all desk-workers have access to computers and use them to email their colleagues, search the Web for information and prepare documents. But I’m not referring to that. I mean that people have begun to think about what they do in compu- tional terms and to exploit the power of computers to do things that would previously have been unimaginable. This observation is especially true of mathematicians. Arithmetic c- putation is one of the roots of mathematics. Since Euclid’s algorithm for ?nding greatest common divisors, many seminal mathematical contributions have consisted of new procedures. But powerful computer graphics have now enabled mathematicians to envisage the behaviour of these procedures and, thereby, gain new insights, make new conjectures and explore new avenues of research. Think of the explosive interest in fractals, for instance. This has been driven primarily by our new-found ability rapidly to visualise fractal shapes, such as the Mandelbrot set. Taking advantage of these new oppor- nities has required the learning of new skills, such as using computer algebra and graphics packages.

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