Re: [Axiom-developer] Raising the bar (again)

2015-03-06 Thread Martin Baker
On 06/03/15 11:32, d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: Have you seen "Visual Complex Analysis" by Tristan Needham? Yes, I agree that there are a lot of examples in there which show how visualisation helps people get a better understanding of the mathematics. Also I think this type of mathematics

Re: [Axiom-developer] Raising the bar (again)

2015-03-06 Thread Martin Baker
It is vital that we make the strong connection between group theory and Spad completely transparent. People need to have a presentation that makes it easy to move between group theory and Spad. There is a book, which I like, called 'Visual Group Theory' [Nathen Carter, 2009]. This looks at the

[Axiom-developer] Raising the bar (again)

2015-03-05 Thread daly
Given that a major goal is communication with the future computational mathematician we need to spend some head-cycles trying to find better ways to communicate. This talk goes to the fundamentals. "A lot of the power of an idea lies in the form in which it is expressed" It is vital that we mak

[Axiom-developer] Raising the bar (again)

2015-03-02 Thread daly
David Mimno gave an interesting talk about using visualization to make algorithms and models easier to learn. He points out that we need three things, the math, the code, and the visualization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Pe30Zz3a0&feature=youtu.be So far there has been almost no work on vis