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On the persuasiveness of visual arguments in mathematics

Two experiments are reported which investigate the factors that influence how persuaded mathematicians are by visual arguments. We demonstrate that if a visual argument is accompanied by a passage of text which describes the image, both research-active mathematicians and successful undergraduate mat...

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Main Authors: Matthew Inglis, Juan P. Mejia-Ramos
Format: Default Article
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/8574
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