Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real - Softcover

Lautman, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144112344X ISBN 13: 9781441123442

Verlag: Continuum, 2011

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Book by Lautman Albert Duffy Simon

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Reading Lautman can help us enrich our picture of the development of the field and take into consideration an option quite different from the received view.

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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 foundation, which have dominated philosophical reflection on mathematics, Lautman undertakes to develop an understanding of the broader structure of mathematics and its evolution. The two powerful ideas that are constants throughout his work, and which have dominated subsequent developments in mathematics, are the concept of mathematical structure and the idea of the essential unity underlying the apparent multiplicity of mathematical disciplines. This collection of his major writings offers readers a much-needed insight into his influence on the development of mathematics and philosophy.

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• Verlag: Continuum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 144112344X
• ISBN 13: 9781441123442
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352