[PDF.74si] Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

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

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 | #138599 in Books |  2001-08-16 |  2001-08-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.03 x7.52l,1.89 | File type: PDF | 512 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Mindful Beauty|By Paul Hunt|Lakoff has pursued his thesis of cognitive metaphor as embodied structure that not only let's science into the discussion of body/mind unity, but can be applied fruitfully in a variety of disciplines. Beginning by working cognitive science into linguistics research, he has expanded inquiries into literature, mathematics, and politics all with power|.com |If Barbie thinks math class is tough, what could she possibly think about math as a class of metaphorical thought? Cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez explore that theme in great depth in Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Emb

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.

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being   |  George Lakoff, Rafael Nuñez. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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