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Record Nr.

UNINA9910767522903321

Autore

Kohlhase Michael <1964->

Titolo

OMDoc-- an open markup format for mathematical documents : (version 1.2) / / Michael Kohlhase ; foreword by Alan Bundy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Springer, c2006

ISBN

3-540-37898-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 428 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; ; 4180

LNCS sublibrary. SL 7, Artificial intelligence

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Mathematics - Data processing

Information storage and retrieval systems - Mathematics

OMDoc (Document markup language)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Setting the stage for open mathematical documents -- pt. 2. An OMDoc primer -- pt. 3. The OMDoc document format -- pt. 4. OMDoc applications, tools, and projects -- pt. 5. Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

Computers are changing the way we think. Of course, nearly all desk-workers have access to computers and use them to email their colleagues, search the Web for information and prepare documents. But I’m not referring to that. I mean that people have begun to think about what they do in computational terms and to exploit the power of computers to do things that would previously have been unimaginable. This observation is especially true of mathematicians. Arithmetic computation is one of the roots of mathematics. Since Euclid’s algorithm for finding greatest common divisors, many seminal mathematical contributions have consisted of new procedures. But powerful computer graphics have now enabled mathematicians to envisage the behaviour of these procedures and, thereby, gain new insights, make new conjectures and explore new avenues of research. Think of the explosive interest in fractals, for instance. This has been driven primarily by our new-found ability rapidly to visualize fractal shapes, such as the Mandelbrot set. Taking advantage of these new opportunities has required the learning of new skills, such as using



computer algebra and graphics packages.