Overview
Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nunez in the first book to provide a serious study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas.
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.
- | Author: George Lakoff, Rafael Nunez
- | Publisher: Basic Books
- | Publication Date: Aug 16, 2001
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780465037711
- | ISBN-10: 0465037712
