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(1999) Visual representations and interpretations, Dordrecht, Springer.
I describe work in progress on using the computer mathematics system, Mathematica, to construct a special "object language" to be used by undergraduate mathematics learners. In this language, graphical objects have a peculiar kind of in-between existence as "visual" data structures that can be manipulated through programs. I attempt to elucidate the nature of this existence, and its possible usefulness for mathematical thinking, and learning, using the example of visualising a four-dimensional "hypercube".
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-0563-3_5
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Kent, P. (1999)., A visual, computational object language for mathematics, in R. Paton & I. Neilson (eds.), Visual representations and interpretations, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 43-51.
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