Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
George Lakoff,Rafael Nunez
Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
George Lakoff,Rafael Nunez
Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael\nNuez in the first book to provide a serious study of the cognitive\nscience of mathematical ideas.. This book is about mathematical\nideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for\nthe most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas\nprojecting from the way we function in the everyday physical\nworld.
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Where Mathematics Comes From argues that conceptual metaphor\nplays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive\nunconscious-from arithmetic and algebra to sets and logic to\ninfinity in all of its forms.
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