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"