Visual Thinking in Mathematics
by Marcus Giaquinto · first published 2007
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For an interesting philosophical/cognitive study see; Visual Thinking in Mathematics: An epistemological study by Marcus Giaquinto - https://academic.oup.com/book/11260 From the Preface: This book is not a mathematical text` a la Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen, not a psychological investigation`…
on “Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)” ↗…problems from entrance exams. A few years back, the wordcel vs shape rotator debate/binary was being discussed online: https://roonscape.ai/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words?r=53sw I'd come across this book "Visual Thinking in Mathematics" (https://www.amazon.in/Visual-Thinking-Mathematics-Marcus-Gia...) which goes into some of this.
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