Albert Lautman
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Albert Lautman was a French mathematical philosopher. An escaped prisoner-of-war, he was shot by the German authorities in Toulouse
, on 1 August 1944.
Original work
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, on 1 August 1944.
Selected bibliography
Translation- Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real (2011) - this volume advertises itself as "the first English collection of the work of Albert Lautman" ISBN 978-1-441-12344-2
Original work
- 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
Other sources
- Fractal Ontology (English) with translations of Lautman's work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman.