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Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real
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Translator's Note Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Jacques Lautman 2. Bibliography of secondary material on the work of Albert Lautman 3. Albert Lautman and the Creative Dialectic of Modern Mathematics Fernando Zalamea 4. Preface to the 1977 Edition Jean Dieudonné 5. Considerations on Mathematical Logic 6. Mathematics and Reality 7. International Congress of the Philosophy of the Sciences 8. On the Reality Inherent to Mathematical Theories 9. The Axiomatic and the Method of Division 10. Essay on the Unity of the Mathematical Sciences in their Current Development 11. Essay on the Notions of Structure and Existence in Mathematics 12. New Research on the Dialectical Structure of Mathematics 13. Letter to Mathematician Maurice Fréchet 14. Symmetry and Dissymmetry in Mathematics and in Physics Bibliography Index.

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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.

About the Author

Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French mathematical philosopher. His work in the philosophy of mathematics has had a profound influence on modern European philosophy, in particular the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou. Simon Duffy is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze (Ashgate, 2006) and editor of Virtual Mathematics: The Logic of Difference (Clinamen Press, 2006).

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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.
*Notre Dame Philosophical Review*

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