Albert Lautman
Albert Lautman was a French philosopher of mathematics, born in Paris. An escaped prisoner of war, was shot by the German 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 - this volume advertises itself as "the first English collection of the work of Albert Lautman"