Where Mathematics Come from

How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

von Rafael Nunez, George Lakoff

512 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Mathematik
• ISBN: 9780465037711
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2017
• Größe: 235 x 191 mm
• Verlag: Basic Books