Albert Lautman (8 February 1908 – 1 August 1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics, born in Paris. An escaped prisoner of war, he was shot by the Nazi authorities in Toulouse on 1 August 1944.
Family
His father was a
Jewish emigrant from
Vienna who became a
medical doctor after he was seriously wounded in the First World War.
[ Mathematics in France during World War II]
Selected bibliography
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Essai sur les Notions de Structure et d'Existence en Mathématiques
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Essai sur l'Unité des Sciences Mathématiques
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Symétrie et Dissymétrie en Mathématiques et en Physique
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Les Mathématiques, les idées et le réel physique
- Translations
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Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real (2011) - this volume advertises itself as "the first English collection of the work of Albert Lautman"
Notes
External links
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Fractal Ontology (English) with translations of Lautman's work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman.