Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination
Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031315812 | 173 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031315812 | 173 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico's theory of poetic logic for the first time as the originating force in mathematics, transforming instinctive counting and spatial perception into poetic (metaphorical) symbolism that dovetails with the origin of language. It looks at current work on mathematical cognition (from Lakoff and Núñez to Butterworth, Dehaene, and beyond), matching it against the poetic logic paradigm. In a sense, it continues from where Kasner and Newman left off, connecting contemporary research on the mathematical mind to the idea that the products of early mathematics were virtually identical to the first forms of poetic language. As such, this book informs the current research on mathematical cognition from a different angle, by looking back at a still relatively unknown philosopher within mathematics.