Louis Couturat
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Louis Couturat (French:
Life and education
Born in Paris. In 1887 he entered
Career
He was the French advocate of the
His first major publication was De Platonicis mythis (1896). In 1901, he published La Logique de Leibniz, a detailed study of Leibniz the logician, based on his examination of the huge Leibniz Nachlass in Hanover. Even though Leibniz had died in 1716, his Nachlass was cataloged only in 1895. Only then was it possible to determine the extent of Leibniz's unpublished work on logic. In 1903, Couturat published much of that work in another large volume, his Opuscules et Fragments Inedits de Leibniz, containing many of the documents he had examined while writing La Logique. Couturat was thus the first to appreciate that Leibniz was the greatest logician during the more than 2000 years that separate Aristotle from George Boole and Augustus De Morgan. A significant part of the 20th century Leibniz revival is grounded in Couturat's editorial and exegetical efforts. This work on Leibniz attracted Russell, also the author of a 1900 book on Leibniz, and thus began their professional correspondence and friendship.
In 1905, Couturat published a work on logic and the
In 1907, Couturat helped found the
Couturat, a confirmed pacifist, was killed when his car was hit by a car carrying orders for the mobilization of the French Army, in the first stage of World War I.
He appears as a character in Joseph Skibell's 2010 novel, A Curable Romantic.
Works
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- 1896: De Platonicis mythis Thesim Facultati Litterarum Parisiensi proponebat Ludovicus Couturat, Scholae Normalae olim alumnus. Parisiis: Felix Alcan Bibliopola. 120 p.
- 1896: De l'Infini mathématique. Republished 1975, Georg Olms.
- 1901: La Logique de Leibniz. Republished 1961, Georg Olms. Donald Rutherford's English translation in progress.
- 1903: Opuscules et Fragments Inédits de Leibniz. Republished 1966, Georg Olms.
- 1903: (with Léopold Leau) Histoire de la langue universelle. Paris: Hachette. Republished 2001, Olms.
- 1905. Les Principes des Mathématiques: avec un appendice sur la philosophie des mathématiques de Kant.[1] Republished 1965, Georg Olms.
- 1905: L'Algèbre de la logique.Open Court, from Project Gutenberg.
- 1906: ¨Pour la langue internationale,[3] Päris
- 1907: (with Léopold Leau) Les nouvelles langues internationales. Paris: Hachette, republished 2001, Olms.
- 1910: Étude sur la dérivation dans la langue internationale. Paris: Delagrave. 100 p.
- 1910: (with Otto Jespersen, R. Lorenz, Wilhelm Ostwald and L.Pfaundler) International Language and Science: Considerations on the Introduction of an International Language into Science, Constable and Company Limited, London.
- 1915: (with Louis de Beaufront) Dictionnari Français-Ido. Paris: Chaix, 586 p.
References
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- ^ Couturat, Louis (1868-1914) Auteur du texte (1906). Pour la langue internationale / L. Couturat.
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Sources
- L'oeuvre de Louis Couturat. Presses de l'École Normale Supérieure. 1983. Proceedings of a conference.
- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2000). The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870-1940. Princeton University Press. Bibliography contains 27 items by Couturat.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Louis Couturat", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Louis Couturat at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Auteur Couturat on French Wikisource
- Works by Louis Couturat at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Louis Couturat at Internet Archive
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