Mentalism and Calculus

Posted by Günther Greindl on
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Nick,

I think the questions you are asking won't be answered in a math book
but rather in a book like this:

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics
into Being
by George Lakoff, Rafael Nu?ez

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Comes-Embodied-Brings/dp/0465037712/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215709470&sr=8-1

I can recommend it warmly, it will clear up many "mysteries" of
mathematics :-)

Cheers,
G?nther

Nicholas Thompson wrote:

>
> Oh, I forgot to ask.
>  
> What about the flow in the opposite direction?  Can the calculus tell us
> anything about how we think about goal direction in human behavior?
>  
> This discussion is posted in www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/MentalismAndCalculus
> <http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/MentalismAndCalculus>
>  
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
> Clark University (nthompson at clarku.edu <mailto:nthompson at clarku.edu>)

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