The Mind Map Book is a classic bestseller written by Tony Buzan - inventor of Mind Map, founder of World Memory Championships, originator of World Speed Reading Tournament, organizer of Mind Sports Olympiad, world's super writer, top speaker in the brain and learning aspects, and global public media figure. All other relevant books were written based on it, and many of the authors are just the students of Tony Buzan around the world.

If want to thoroughly understand something, you have to learn its history first. How did it start? How to develop? How to become what it is today? In the end, it may be traced to a certain philosophy that adapts to various backgrounds in that era. Like guys learning art have to study the art history, similarly, in order to searchingly study programming, understand a computer language in-depth, we should go to learn how one language grew out of nothing.

FreeMind is a set of practical open-source mind mapping/mental (MindMap) software, written in Java. It can be used to help you organize thoughts, represent its every aspect with graphics. Through the graphical, structured thinking, to help you understand the whole process.