Thanks for sharing with us your experiences about mathematics but what I need to know is the equipment a blind person would need to successfully do mathematics with out being assisted by a sighted person. Secondly, are there some quick shortcuts for blind people when browsing the internet without using arrows all the time. For instance, if you've linked a particular item of your interest, JAWS will start reading from top instead of going to the direct link you've just entered and that will require you to use your down arrow to get the text.
Submitted by dion.milton1 on Sat, 11/28/2009 - 01:07.
dion.milton1 replied :
you will most probably need a sepret talking scientific calculator for the maths
to get to a link on a page you will need to go to the links list by pressing insert F 7 which will bring up all the links on the page
to go to the heading the text is under press h the heading name will be spoken
from dion
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/01/1970 - 00:00.
Anonymous said :
Wow! I love maths, and the kind of work T V Raman Sir has done at Google is just amazing! I am still trying to understand some the things he has written in this article. Overall, the structure used by him is great. The last line of the article mentions this "The verification step remains—it cannot be completed without readers’ comments. So I couldn't resist commenting on it over here! For those who missed this gem, find below an abstract.
This essay outlines some of my experiences as a mathematician who cannot see. Note that I transitioned to being a Computer Scientist during Graduate School. However I strongly believe in the edict “Once a mathematician, always amathematician!” —my training inmathematics continues to influence the way I think. I’ve been unable to see since the age of 14, which means that I’ve studied and practiced mathematics predominantly in an eyes-free environment. This essay is my first conscious attempt at asking the question “What is involved in doing mathematics when you cannot see?” I hope that some of the experiences outlined here will prove insightful to mathematicians at large. At its heart, mathematics is about understanding the underlying structure inherent in a given area of interest —and where no such structure exists —to define the minimal structure that is needed to make forward progress. The general perception that mathematics might be hard to do in an eyesfree environment probably traces itself to the common view of mathematics as a field where one performs copious calculations on paper. I’ll illustrate some of the habits and abilities one evolves over time to compensate for the lack of ready access to scratch memory provided by pencil and paper when working in an eyes free environment. In this essay, I hope to demonstrate that mathematics in its essence is something far bigger. By being bigger than “calculations on paper”, not being able to see rarely if ever proves an
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Thanks for sharing with us your experiences about mathematics but what I need to know is the equipment a blind person would need to successfully do mathematics with out being assisted by a sighted person. Secondly, are there some quick shortcuts for blind people when browsing the internet without using arrows all the time. For instance, if you've linked a particular item of your interest, JAWS will start reading from top instead of going to the direct link you've just entered and that will require you to use your down arrow to get the text.
you will most probably need a sepret talking scientific calculator for the maths
to get to a link on a page you will need to go to the links list by pressing insert F 7 which will bring up all the links on the page
to go to the heading the text is under press h the heading name will be spoken
from dion
Wow! I love maths, and the kind of work T V Raman Sir has done at Google is just amazing! I am still trying to understand some the things he has written in this article. Overall, the structure used by him is great. The last line of the article mentions this "The verification step remains—it cannot be completed without readers’ comments. So I couldn't resist commenting on it over here! For those who missed this gem, find below an abstract.
This essay outlines some of my experiences as a mathematician who cannot see. Note that I transitioned to being a Computer Scientist during Graduate School. However I strongly believe in the edict “Once a mathematician, always amathematician!” —my training inmathematics continues to influence the way I think. I’ve been unable to see since the age of 14, which means that I’ve studied and practiced mathematics predominantly in an eyes-free environment. This essay is my first conscious attempt at asking the question “What is involved in doing mathematics when you cannot see?” I hope that some of the experiences outlined here will prove insightful to mathematicians at large. At its heart, mathematics is about understanding the underlying structure inherent in a given area of interest —and where no such structure exists —to define the minimal structure that is needed to make forward progress. The general perception that mathematics might be hard to do in an eyesfree environment probably traces itself to the common view of mathematics as a field where one performs copious calculations on paper. I’ll illustrate some of the habits and abilities one evolves over time to compensate for the lack of ready access to scratch memory provided by pencil and paper when working in an eyes free environment. In this essay, I hope to demonstrate that mathematics in its essence is something far bigger. By being bigger than “calculations on paper”, not being able to see rarely if ever proves an
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raman sir is great