This is the first English collection of the work of Albert Lautman,
a major figure in philosophy of mathematics and a key influence on
Badiou and Deleuze. 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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