Currently computer visualization is moving from a pure illustration domain to visual reasoning, discovery, and decisions making. This trend is associated with new terms such as visual data mining, visual decision making, heterogeneous, iconic and diagrammatic reasoning. Beyond a new terminology, the trend itself is not new as the early history of mathematics clearly shows. In this chapter, we demonstrate that we can learn valuable lessons from the history of mathematics for visual reasoning and discovery.
Key words: Visualization, visual reasoning, visual discovery, history of mathematics.
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Kovalerchuk, B. (2004). Toward visual reasoning and discovery: lessons from the early history of mathematics. In: Kovalerchuk, B., Schwing, J. (eds) Visual and Spatial Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2958-5_7
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