
Ebook: Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
Author: George Lakoff Rafael E. Nuñez
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Language: English
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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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