Read this for another explaination of mipmapping, it's a bit more concice and probably more accurate:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~mueller/GP/mipmap.txt
I tried to find a good picture that would show the difference between mipmapping and filtering but no luck.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~mueller/GP/mipmap.txt
I tried to find a good picture that would show the difference between mipmapping and filtering but no luck.