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.
Rafael Nuñez is currently at the Department of Psychology of the University of Freiburg, and is a research associate of the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-editor of Reclaiming Cognition: The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion.
Former special school head teacher. Now, information designer, creating visual clarity around teaching ideas and processes.
@gorge_lilley @meghanrstacey @Capitan_Typo @McMahonSam_ @CritStudsEd Ah in which case you'd love Lakoff's collaboration with Nunez in writing Where Mathematics Comes From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being https://t.co/ZtPzOp3bb8