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Mathematics, ideas, and the physical real / Albert Lautman ; translated by Simon B. Duffy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lautman, Albert, 1908-1944, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Mathématiques, les idées et le réel physique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English translation of French original.
- Summary:
- Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work played a crucial role in the history of contemporary French philosophy. His ideas have had an enormous influence on key contemporary thinkers including Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou, for whom he is a major touchstone in the development of their own engagements with mathematics. Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real presents the first English translation of Lautman's published works between 1933 and his death in 1944. Rather than being preoccupied with the relation of mathematics to logic or with the problems of
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Jacques Lautman; Secondary Bibliography on the Work of Albert Lautman; Albert Lautman and the Creative Dialectic of Modern Mathematics; Preface to the 1977 Edition by Jean Dieudonné; Considerations on Mathematical Logic; Mathematics and Reality; International Congress of the Philosophy of Science; On the Reality Inherent to Mathematical Theories; The Axiomatic and the Method of Division; BOOK I Essay on the Unity of the Mathematical Sciencesin their Current Development
- BOOK II Essay on the Notions of Structure and Existence in MathematicsBOOK III New Research on the Dialectical Structure of Mathematics; BOOK IV Symmetry and Dissymmetry in Mathematics and Physics
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French as Les Mathématiques, les idées et le réel physique. Librairie Philosophique, J. VRIN, 2006"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12270-7
- 9786613122704
- 1-4411-4433-1
- OCLC:
- 730151742
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