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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.

Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

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    Publisher: Basic Books
    Publication Date: 16/08/2001
    ISBN13: 9780465037711, 978-0465037711
    ISBN10: 0465037712

    Number of Pages: 512

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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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.

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