Where Mathematics Come From : How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being Paperback / softback
by George Lakoff, Rafael Nunez
Paperback / softback
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Basic Books
- Publication Date:16/08/2001
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- ISBN:9780465037711
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Basic Books
- Publication Date:16/08/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780465037711