Mateusz Hohol

Foundations of Geometric Cognition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Foundations of Geometric Cognition presents an empirically inspired theory of geometric cognition. The book explains how language and diagrams provide cognitive scaffolding for abstract geometric thinking within a context of Euclidean systems of thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429509216
• Artikelnr.: 57931959

Autorenporträt

Mateusz Hohol is Assistant Professor at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, and Postdoc at Polish Academy of Sciences (IPS PAS), Warsaw. His research focuses on the cognitive science of mathematics, especially on numerical and geometric cognition.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Geometric thinking, the paradise of abstraction
Chapter 2. The hardwired foundations of geometric cognition
Chapter 3. Embodiment and abstraction
Chapter 4. Cognitive artifacts and Euclid: Diagrams and formulae
Conclusions and future directions for research
References