Albert Lautman



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) - this volume advertises itself as "the first English collection of the work of Albert Lautman" ISBN 978-1-4411-2344-2