Multimedia tools for communicating mathematics. Based on the international workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2000. With CD-ROM (Q5956615)

From the preface: This book presents some of the tools and algorithms currently being used to create new ways of making enhanced interactive presentations and experiments. It is, we hope, an invaluable and up-to-date reference book on multimedia tools presently available for mathematics and related subjects. Currently, many tools and projects focus on the enhancement of digital publications aiming to provide interactive research, experiments and teaching tools online. As yet they provide only limited functionality. We believe that the diversity of multimedia tools for doing mathematics will grow substantially in the near future and will profoundly affect the way mathematicians do mathematics. Contents: Tom M. Apostol, Computer animated mathematics videotapes (1--27); Thomas F. Banchoff and Davide P. Cervone, A virtual reconstruction of a virtual exhibit (29--38); Bruce Bauslaugh, Richard Cannings, Claude Laflamme and W. Keith Nicholson, An intuitive approach to elementary mathematics on the web (39--49); Olga Caprotti, Arjeh M. Cohen, Hans Cuypers and Hans Sterk, OpenMath technology for interactive mathematical documents (51--65); Davide P. Cervone, The StageTools package for creating geometry for the web (67--77); Teresa Chambel and Nuno Guimaraes, Communicating and learning mathematics with Hypervideo (79--91); Éliane Cousquer, Collaboration in a multimedia laboratory (93--116); Tim Hoffmann, \({}_{\text{j Dvi}}\) -- a way to put interactive TeX on the web (117--130); Lawrence S. Husch, Visual calculus -- development and tools (131--140); Michael Joswig and Konrad Polthier, EG-Models -- a new journal for digital geometry models (165--190); Ulrich H. Kortenkamp, The future of mathematical software (191--201); Ulrich H. Kortenkamp and Jürgen Richter-Gebert, A dynamic setup for elementary geometry (203--219); Gilles Kuntz, Dynamic geometry on WWW (221--229); Erich Neuwirth, Minimalistic tools for mathematical multimedia (231--239); Konrad Polthier, Samy Khadem, Eike Preuß\ and Ulrich Reitebuch, Publication of interactive visualizations with JavaView (241--264); Heli Ruokamo, The solver learning environment for solving mathematical word problems: pupils' discussions (265--276); Robert G. Scharein and Kellogg S. Booth, Interactive knot theory with KnotPlot (277--290); Alexander Schliep and Winfried Hochstättler, Developing Gato and CATBox with Python: teaching graph algorithms through visualization and experimentation (291--309); John M. Sullivan, Rescalable real-time interactive computer animations (311--314). The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.