Where Mathematics Come From : How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
George Lakoff; Rafael Nunez
Basic Books
9780465037711
0-465-03771-2
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.
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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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