Marcel Danesi: Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination
Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination
Buch
- Springer International Publishing, 08/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783031315848
- Bestellnummer: 11937058
- Umfang: 188 Seiten
- Auflage: 2023
- Gewicht: 295 g
- Maße: 235 x 155 mm
- Stärke: 11 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.8.2024
- Serie: Mathematics in Mind
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vicös 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.The aim of this volume is to look broadly at what constitutes the mathematical mind through the Vichian lens of poetic logic. Vico was among the first to suggest that the essential nature of mind could be unraveled indirectly by reconstructing the sources of its modifications (his term for creations ); that is, by examining the creation and function of symbols, words, and all the other uniquely human artifacts including mathematics the mind has allowed humans to establish the world of civil society, Vicös term for culture and civilization.
The book is of interest to cognitive scientists working on math cognition. It presents the theory of poetic logic as Vico articulated it in his book The New Science, examining its main premises and then applying it to an interpretation of the ongoing work in math cognition. It will also be of interest to the general public, since it presents a history of early mathematics through the lens of an idea that has borne fruit in understanding the origin of language and symbols more broadly.
Biografie
MARCEL DANESI is the author of many books on semiotic topics. He is Professor of Semiotics and Linguistics at the University of Toronto and Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory. Danesi has also been cross-appointed as a professor of education, having established a continuing studies mathematics program for students with difficulties in this subject.Mehr von Marcel Danesi
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