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Where Mathematics Comes from
How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
by George Lakoff; Rafael E. Nunez
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This volume, a collaboration between a linguist and a psychologist, explores how the mind functions when an individual performs mathematic operations.
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9780465037711,
Paperback,
Basic Books,
2001
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9780465037704,
Hardcover,
Perseus Books Group,
2000
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Publisher Notes
Provides an in-depth analysis of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas that argues that conceptual metaphor plays a definitive role in mathematical ideas, exploring such concepts as arithmetic, algebra, sets, logic, and infinity.
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