Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being by George Lakoff, Rafael Núñez

Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being

George Lakoff, Rafael Núñez

512 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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