Albert Lautman

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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.^[1][2]

Selected bibliography

• Essai sur les Notions de Structure et d'Existence en Mathématiques
• Essai sur l'Unité des Sciences Mathématiques
• Symétrie et Dissymétrie en Mathématiques et en Physique
• Les Mathématiques, les idées et le réel physique

Translations

• Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real (2011) - this volume advertises itself as "the first English collection of the work of Albert Lautman" ISBN 978-1-4411-2344-2

Notes

External links

• Fractal Ontology (English) with translations of Lautman's work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman.