Where Mathematics Come from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

by Lakoff, George
ISBN: 9780465037711
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Overview

This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world. Where Mathematics Comes From argues that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious-from arithmetic and algebra to sets and logic to infinity in all of its forms.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Lakoff, George
  • ISBN: 9780465037711
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.20 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 512
  • Publication Year: 2001