Albert Lautman Explained

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"

Notes

1. Book: Lautman, Albert. 2011. Mathematics, Ideas, and the Physical Real. Continuum. 978-1-4411-2344-2. Albert Lautman. Duffy. Simon B.. xvi.
2. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Extras/France_World_War_II.html Mathematics in France during World War II

External links

• Fractal Ontology (English) with translations of Lautman's work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman.