Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination - Marcel Danesi

Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination

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Buch | Hardcover
XII, 173 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-31581-7 (ISBN)
139,09 inkl. MwSt
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.
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," Vico's 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.

Marcel Danesi is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively on the relation between mathematics and symbol systems, including how puzzles and problems in mathematics are part of a more general dialectic frame of mind for grasping the nature of reality. Among his works in the field are Language and Mathematics (2018) and Ahmes' Legacy (2020). He also founded the CogSci Network at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, which consists of internationally renowned researchers in the field of cognitive mathematics.

Preface.- Imagination.- Ingenuity.- Memory.- Metaphor.- Logic.- Glossary.- References.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Mathematics in Mind
Zusatzinfo XII, 173 p. 72 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 439 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Schlagworte Giambattista Vico • Language and Mathematics • Mathematical Symbols • Metaphor • Origins of Mathematics • poetic logic
ISBN-10 3-031-31581-2 / 3031315812
ISBN-13 978-3-031-31581-7 / 9783031315817
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