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Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being - George Lakoff, Rafael Núñez
Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
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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... show 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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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780465037711 (0465037712)
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Humanities, Language, Science, Culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Mathematics
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Where Mathematics Come From How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being - George Lakoff, Rafael Núñez, Rafael E. Nunez
Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being - George Lakoff, Rafael Núñez
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