Abstract
Some viewpoints on the foundations of mathematics and its philosophy are more connected to scientific practice and its heuristics, mainly with the construction of physical theories and the search for the best explanations of physical phenomena by means of abduction or the solution of problems by the analytical method. Some researchers have introduced the importance of human cultural activities into the cognitive aspects of the mental processes of scientists, proposing an embodied approach in the bridge between mathematics and reality. Fluid mechanics is an interesting area in this sense due to its position if the network of mathematics. By means of an historical example on vortex motion by Helmholtz, we show that the intuitive idea of eddy (or vortex) contains cognitive properties of a mental schema and that it gives many heuristic options (via cooperation with other heuristic instruments like extreme thinking, thought experiment and analogy) for an embodied mathematical explanation about vortex dynamics.
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