Albert Lautman


Albert Lautman 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].

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 - this volume advertises itself as "the first English collection of the work of Albert Lautman"