If Barbie thinks math class is tough, what could she possibly
think about math as a class of metaphorical thought? Cognitive
scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nu?ez explore that theme in
great depth in Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied
Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. This book is not for the
faint of heart or those with an aversion to heavy
abstraction--Lakoff and Nu?ez pull no punches in their analysis of
mathematical thinking. Their basic premise, that all of mathemat
內容簡介：
Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael
Nu?ez in the first book to provide a serious study of the cognitive
science of mathematical ideas.
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.
關於作者：
George Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of
California, Berkeley. He was a founder of the generative semantics
movements in linguistics in the 1960s and of the field of cognitive
linguistics in the 1970s, and one of the developers of the neural
theory of language in the 1980s and ''90s. He is the co-author, with
Mark Johnson, of Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the Flesh.
Rafael Nu?ez 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.
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