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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Lautman, Albert (2011). Mathematics, Ideas, and the Physical Real (PDF). Translated by Duffy, Simon B. Continuum. p. xvi. ISBN 978-1-4411-2344-2.
- ^ Mathematics in France during World War II
External links
[edit]- Fractal Ontology (English) with translations of Lautman's work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman.
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- 1908 births
- 1944 deaths
- Writers from Paris
- Jews in the French resistance
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Philosophers of mathematics
- 20th-century French philosophers
- World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
- French prisoners of war in World War II
- Deaths by firearm in France
- People executed by Germany by firearm
- Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany
- French people executed by Nazi Germany
- French male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century French male writers