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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790046603321

Autore

Lautman Albert <1908-1944, >

Titolo

Mathematics, ideas, and the physical real / / Albert Lautman ; translated by Simon B. Duffy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-12270-7

9786613122704

1-4411-4433-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

510.1

Soggetti

Mathematics - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in French as Les Mathématiques, les idées et le réel physique. Librairie Philosophique, J. VRIN, 2006"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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