Where Mathematics Come From - How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	BasicBooks
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	August 2001
Authors:	George Lakoff • Rafael Nunez
Dimensions:	236 x 190 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	492
ISBN-13:	978-0-465-03771-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General
LSN:	0-465-03771-2
Barcode:	9780465037711

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