Publisher: A K Peters (2008)Details: 325 pages, Hardcover
Price: $49.00
ISBN: 9781568814100
Category: Anthology
Topics: Mathematical Software, Communicating Mathematics
J. M. Borwein, E. M. Rocha, and J. F. Rodrigues, editors
Publisher: A K Peters (2008)
Details: 325 pages, Hardcover
Price: $49.00
ISBN: 9781568814100
Category: Anthology
Topics: Mathematical Software, Communicating Mathematics
[Reviewed by Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, on 02/25/2009]
What is the impact of the internet in mathematics? How does one preserve mathematical literature in digital form so that it will be available to present and future generations? Can it be made cost-free for readers? Do we still need hardcopies of papers? What is the future of journals? These are important questions that not only administrators and librarians but also mathematicians have to address in our digital era.
Although the articles collected in this book do not offer definite answers to those questions, they do raise several important and interesting points and describe some avenues that should be (and have been) explored. The articles in the first part of the book are especially relevant to those involved in making decisions about libraries and journal subscriptions.
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo is a researcher at IMPA in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His main interests are numerical methods in computer graphics, but he remains an algebraist at heart. He is also one of the designers of the Lua language.