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assistive-technology

11 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 4 claims, 2 observations, 1 question, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Blind mathematicians' working methods and private notations
  topic map 2026-09-09 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, braille-mathematics
• Why do blind mathematicians' private notation systems seem not to transmit between them, while their methods and mentorship do?
  capture promoted 2026-09-08 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, notation, transmission
• The accessibility layer for doing mathematics without sight has been built largely by blind researchers themselves, not by the proof-assistant, LaTeX, or notation toolmakers
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, assistive-technology, co-design
• Abraham Nemeth kept his braille math code secret until a colleague's unplanned request for a table of integrals forced its disclosure — a documented mechanism for why private notation stays private by default
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, braille-mathematics
• Norberto Salinas and Abraham Nemeth each independently invented a personal braille mathematics notation in the mid-20th century, extending the blind-mathematician pattern to more cases and countries
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, braille-mathematics
• Capture: Is blind mathematicians' independent reinvention of private notation a real recurring pattern, and why is there no visible transmission between cases?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-10 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, pattern
• Nicholas Saunderson's 1700s tactile 'Palpable Arithmetic' — blind mathematicians built their own computing devices centuries before assistive tech was a category
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-07-09 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, cross-time-bridge
• Blind mathematicians across centuries each devised a private system to do mathematics without sight — Saunderson (touch), Pontryagin (speech), Euler (memory)
  observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, cross-time-bridge
• Lev Pontryagin, blind from age 14, followed and produced mathematics through spoken symbol-glosses his mother invented (∪ read as 'tails up')
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, optimal-control, topology
• Nicholas Saunderson, blinded in infancy, built a tactile calculating device he called his 'palpable arithmetic'
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, tactile-computing
• Is blind mathematicians' independent reinvention of private notation a real recurring pattern, and why is there no visible transmission between cases?
  question open 2026-07-09 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, pattern