Swiss-American cognitive scientist who collaborated with George Lakoff on Where Mathematics Comes From — arguing that mathematics is a human cognitive achievement grounded in embodied experience.
Co-developed the embodied mathematics framework with Lakoff; studied how conceptual metaphor structures mathematical thinking (infinity as endpoint, numbers as points on a line).
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