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.
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) - <small>this volume advertises itself as "the first English collection of the work of Albert Lautman"</small>
Notes
External links
- Fractal Ontology (English) with translations of Lautman's work by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman.