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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (26 Jul 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0465037712
ISBN-13: 978-0465037711
Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.6 x 2.8 cm
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Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nuez in the first book to provide a serious study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas.. 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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