Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into being

by George Lakoff

2020-12-29 05:09:36

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 Com... Read more
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.
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Book Details

File size9.25 X 7.38 X 0.68 in
Print pages512
PublisherBasic Books
Publication date August 15, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780465037711
George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Don't Think of an E...

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