Limitations of visual presentation

[Hill]

Can a visually impaired person understand the book Visual Complex Analysis by Needham? I mean, in principle, e.g., even being helped by somebody with no visual impairment. IOW, can its content be conveyed by pure text, without illustrations?

 

[Baluncore]

It will depend on their experience, prior to impairment of their vision, and the degree of their vision impairment. The content is mathematical, with illustrations. A good interpreter, giving a running commentary, might help someone with visual experience.

 

[robphy]

Possibly interesting:

• "The World of Blind Mathematicians"
  Notics of the AMS, vol 49, No. 10, (Nov 2002)
  https://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-morin.pdf
• "STEM is for Everyone: Nicholas Saunderson, Blind Mathematician"
  https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/scientists-with-disabilities-saunderson-blind-mathematician
• "Blind Mathematicians? Certainly!"
  Braille Monitor (July 2012)
  by Alfred P. Maneki
  https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm12/bm1207/bm120702.htm
• https://blindscience.org/blindmath-gems-mathematicians
• https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-blind-mathematicians
• www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/sdazuq/how_do_blind_mathematicians_visualize_stuff_in/