Where Mathematics Come From
How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
Rafael Nunez author George Lakoff author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Basic Books
Published:16th Aug '01
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
ISBN: 9780465037711
Dimensions: 234mm x 190mm x 38mm
Weight: 812g
512 pages