Where Mathematics Comes from

Where Mathematics Comes from

How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

by George Lakoff, Rafael E. Núñez

493 pages· 2000· ISBN 9780465037711
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Provides an in-depth analysis of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas that argues that conceptual metaphor plays a definitive role in mathematical ideas, exploring such concepts as arithmetic, algebra, sets, logic, and infinity. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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