Where Mathematics Come From
Where Mathematics Come From
副标题: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
ISBN: 9780465037711
出版社: Basic Books
出版年: 2001-8-16
页数: 512
定价: USD 29.99
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nu?ez 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.