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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

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Where Mathematics Come From cover

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