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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mathematics, Formand Function is a survey of the whole of mathematics, including itsorigins and deep structure, by the American mathematician Saunders MacLane. Throughout his book, and especially in chapter I.11, Mac Laneinformally discusses how mathematics is grounded in more ordinaryconcrete and abstract human activities. This section sets out a summaryof his views on the human grounding of mathematics. Mac Lane is notedfor co-founding the field of category theory, which enables afar-reaching, unified treatment of mathematical structures andrelationships between them at the cost of breaking away from theircognitive grounding. Nonetheless, his views -however informal- are avaluable contribution to the philosophy and anthropology of mathematicswhich anticipates, in some respects, the much richer and more detailedaccount of the cognitive basis of mathematics given by George Lakoff andRafael E. Nunez in Where Mathematics Comes From. Lakoff and Nunez arguethat mathematics emerges via conceptual metaphors grounded in the humanbody, its motion through space and time, and in human sense perceptions.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Mathematics, Form and Function | Mathematics, Saunders Mac Lane, Conceptual metaphor, Cognitive science, Cognitive science of mathematics, Embodied philosophy | Frederic P. Miller (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786132670922 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…