| Where Mathematics Come from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being Contributor(s): Lakoff, George (Author), Nunez, Rafael E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465037712 ISBN-13: 9780465037711 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | History & Philosophy - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Mathematics | Number Theory |
| Dewey: 510 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 7.4" W x 9.2" (1.70 lbs) 512 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |