Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real

by Lautman, Albert; Duffy, Simon B.

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9781441123442

ISBN10:

144112344X

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/4/2011

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Continuum Intl Pub Group

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"Originally published in French as Les Mathematiques, les idees et le reel physique. Librairie Philosophique, J. VRIN, 2006"--T.p. verso.

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.