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

ISBN-13: 9780465037711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 512 str.

George Lakoff; Rafael Nunez

Opis

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.