Albert Lautman
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Albert Lautman (February 8, 1908 – August 1, 1944) was a French mathematical philosopher. An escaped prisoner of war, was shot by the German 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.
Notes
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 978-1-4411-2344-2
- 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.
Categories:
- 1908 births
- 1944 deaths
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Philosophers of mathematics
- 20th-century French philosophers
- French activists
- French Resistance members
- 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 firearm
- French people executed by Nazi Germany
- French male writers
