Visual thinking in mathematics an epistemological study

Drawing from philosophical work on the nature of concepts and from empirical studies of visual perception, mental imagery, and numerical cognition, Giaquinto explores a major source of our grasp of mathematics, using examples from basic geometry arithmetic, algebra, and real analysis

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giaquinto, M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 2007, 2007
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