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

Abstract

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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Jeffrey L. Nunemacher, George P. Lakoff, Rafael E. Núñez (2002). Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. American Mathematical Monthly. https://doi.org/10.2307/3072449

@article{l2002where,
  title  = {Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being},
  author = {Nunemacher, Jeffrey L. and Lakoff, George P. and Núñez, Rafael E.},
  year   = {2002},
  journal = {American Mathematical Monthly},
  doi    = {10.2307/3072449}
}

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