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.{{cite book |last=Lautman|first=Albert|date=2011|title=Mathematics, Ideas, and the Physical Real|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/beistegui/175683193-albert-lautman-simon-duffy-translator-mathematics-ideas-and-the-physical-real-2011.pdf|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-1-4411-2344-2|author-link=Albert Lautman|translator-last1=Duffy|translator-first1=Simon B.|page=xvi}}[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Extras/France_World_War_II.html Mathematics in France during World War II]
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
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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" {{ISBN|978-1-4411-2344-2}}
Notes
External links
- [http://www.fractalontology.wordpress.com Fractal Ontology] (English) with translations of Lautman's work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman.
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