Computer Animated Mathematics Videotapes

Visualization — the representation of ideas, principles or problems by images — has always played an important role in both teaching and learning mathematics. Visual images make a much greater impact than printed or spoken words. People tend to forget wor

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Series Editors Gerald Farin Hans-Christian Hege David Hoffman Christopher R. Johnson Konrad Polthier

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH

Jonathan Borwein • Maria H. Morales Konrad Polthier • Jose F. Rodrigues Editors

Multimedia Tools for Communicating Mathematics With 114 Figures, 46 in Color With CD-ROM

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]onathan Borwein Simon Fraser University, Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Burnaby BC, Canada VSA lS6

Maria H. Morales Iose F. Rodrigues University of Lisbon, CMAF, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto,2 1649-003 Lisbon, portugal

Konrad Polthier Technical University Berlin, FB 3 Mathematics MA 8-3, StraBe des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Borwein, Jonathan: Multimedia Tools for Communicating Mathematics/Maria H. Morales; Konrad Polthier; Jose F. Rodrigues (Eds.). - Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong; London; Milan; Paris; Tokyo: Springer 2002 (Mathematics and visualization) ISBN 978-3-642-62701-9 ISBN 978-3-642-56240-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-56240-2

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Preface

This book on multimedia tools for communicating mathematics arose f