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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.

mathematics cognitive science metaphor

References

  1. See especially the table in Mac Lane (1986), p. 35.
  2. What is the Nature of Mathematics?, Michael Sutcliffe, referenced February 1, 2011 http://www.sutcliffe.com/blog/?m=200709
  3. See http://www.unifr.ch/perso/nunezr/warning.html
  4. Devlin, Keith (2005), The Math Instinct / Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats and Dogs), Thunder's Mouth Press, ISBN 1-56025-839-X 
  5. Burton, David M. (2011), The History of Mathematics / An Introduction (7th ed.), McGraw-Hill, p. 712, ISBN 978-0-07-338315-6 
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