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Where Mathematics Come From

Paperback • 2001 • English

Where Mathematics Come From

By George Lakoff

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About the book

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.

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9780465037711

Publisher

Basic Books

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Where Mathematics Come From

Format

Paperback

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