Where Mathematics Come from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465037711ISBN-10:465037712UPC:9780465037711Book Category:Mathematics, PsychologyBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Number TheorySize:9.20 x 7.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.7Product ID:SC0VK99JX5
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465037711ISBN-10:465037712UPC:9780465037711Book Category:Mathematics, PsychologyBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Number TheorySize:9.20 x 7.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.7Product ID:SC0VK99JX5
George Lakoff is professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, and the coauthor, with Mark Johnson, of Metaphors We Live By. He was one of the founders of the generative semantics movements in linguistics in the 1960s, a founder of the field of cognitive linguistics in the 1970s, and one of the developers of the neural theory of language in the 1980s and '90s. His other books include More Than Cool Reason (with Mark Turner), Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, and Moral Politics. Rafael Nuñez is currently at the Department of Psychology of the University of Freiburg, and is a research associate of the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-editor of Reclaiming Cognition: The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion.
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