Gaston Milhaud

Gaston Milhaud (10 August 1858, Nîmes – 1 October 1918, Paris) was a French philosopher and historian of science.

Gaston Milhaud studied mathematics with Gaston Darboux at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1881 he took a teaching post at the University of Le Havre. In 1891 he became professor of mathematics at Montpellier University, and in 1895 became professor of philosophy there.J. Peiffer, 'Milhaud, Gaston', in Joseph Warren Dauben and Christoph J. Scriba, eds., Writing the history of mathematics: its historical development, Birkhäuser, 2002, p.486 In 1909 a chair in the history of philosophy in its relationship to the sciences was created for him at the Sorbonne. Milhaud's successor in the chair was Abel Rey.

Works

  • Leçons sur les origines de la science grecque, Paris, F.Alcan, 1893
  • Essai sur les conditions et les limites de la certitude logique, 1894
  • Le rationnel: études complémentaires à l'Essai sur la certitude logique, 1898
  • Les philosophes-géomètres de la Grèce, Platon et ses prédécesseurs, Paris, 1900
  • Études sur la pensée scientifique chez les Grecs et chez les modernes, Paris, 1906
  • Nouvelles études sur l'histoire de la pensée scientifique, 1910
  • Descartes savant, Paris, 1921
  • La philosophie de Charles Renouvier, 1927
  • Études sur Cournot, 1927

References