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.
- ISBN10 0465037712
- ISBN13 9780465037711
- Publish Date 16 August 2001 (first published 2 November 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 512
- Language English