Where Mathematics Come From

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UPC:
9780465037711
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
8/16/2001
Release Date:
8/16/2001
Author:
George Lakoff
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Edition:
First Edition
Pages:
511
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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.