Sections
1. Introduction
2. Visualization as illustration: lessons
from hieroglyphic numerals
3. Visual reasoning: lessons from
hieroglyphic arithmetic
4. Visual discovery: lessons from the
discovery of p
5. Conclusion
6. Exercises and problems
7. References
Abstract
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.