num_pages: 511
description: 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.
language: English
title: Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
titlecomplete: Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
genres: Logic, Language, Philosophy, Education, Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Nonfiction, Mathematics, History
ratings_count: 369
publisher: Basic Books