204 Pages
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Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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The cognitive foundations of geometry have puzzled academics for a long time, and even today are mostly unknown to many scholars, including mathematical cognition researchers.
Foundations of Geometric Cognition shows that basic geometric skills are deeply hardwired in the visuospatial cognitive capacities of our brains, namely spatial navigation and object recognition. These capacities,... Read more
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
Biography
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.
