Where Mathematics Comes From

Where Mathematics Comes From
AuthorGeorge Lakoff
Rafael E. Núñez
SubjectNumerical cognition
Published2000
Pages492
ISBN978-0-465-03771-1
OCLC44045671

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (hereinafter WMCF) is a book by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, and Rafael E. Núñez, a psychologist. Published in 2000, WMCF seeks to found a cognitive science of mathematics, a theory of embodied mathematics based on conceptual metaphor.

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