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

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.

# Language, Metaphor, and Cognition # Social Sciences # History and Theory of Mathematics # Arts and Humanities # Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques

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