Computer-Encouraged Serendipity in Pure Mathematics,

Abstract

The paper deals with the addition of an interactive graphics terminal to even a small to medium size computer, enabling one to construct an 'n-dimensional blackboard'. On his device, with the use of control dials, joysticks, and other analog input devices, a mathematician can display and manipulate two-dimensional projections of n-dimensional geometrical constructs with much greater speed and accuracy than he can bring to this usual blackboard sketches. This has been implemented in a prototype version on the microprogrammed mini-computer BUGS system at Brown University. This paper describes the facilities of the BUGS blackboard, and reports on the observed interaction between the physical facilities available on the BUGS system and the sorts of mathematical results that the use of these facilities in the BUGS blackboard seem to encourage. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0771282

Entities

People

  • Charles M. Strauss

Organizations

  • Brown University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Computers
  • Geometry
  • Graphics
  • Interactive Graphics
  • Mathematics
  • Prototypes
  • Terminals
  • Two Dimensional
  • Universities

Readers

  • Aerospace Research.
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.