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Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

By George Lakoff , Rafael Nuñez

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2001
ISBN
0465037712, 9780465037711
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19264072 bytes)
Pages
C, XI, 493, B\514
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-03-18 09:30:16

Description

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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