Where Mathematics Come from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

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 E. Nunez
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 08/16/2001
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.7lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780465037711