# Where Mathematics Come From

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- Authors: [George Lakoff](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-lakoff), [Rafael Nunez](https://www.bookquiver.com/rafael-nunez)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-08-16

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Where Mathematics Come From

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6503-771-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2001-08-16
- Language: en_GB