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

  1. ↑ Lautman, Albert (2011). Mathematics, Ideas, and the Physical Real (PDF). Translated by Duffy, Simon B. Continuum. p. xvi. ISBN 978-1-4411-2344-2.
  2. ↑ Mathematics in France during World War II
  • Fractal Ontology (English) with translations of Lautman's work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman.
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