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Visual thinking - visual imagination or perception of diagrams and symbol arrays, and mental operations on them - is omnipresent in mathematics. Is this visual thinking merely a psychological aid, facilitating grasp of what is gathered by other means? Or does it also have epistemological functions, as a means of discovery, understanding, and even proof? By examining the many kinds of visual representation in mathematics and the diverse ways in which they are used, Marcus Giaquintoargues that vis

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Author
M. (MARCUS) GIAQUINTO
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780191536618
Category
language
Subjects
Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics
Updated
2026-03-24

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