Louis Couturat

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Louis Couturat (born January 17, 1868 in Ris-Orangis near Paris , † August 3, 1914 ) was a French logician , mathematician and linguist .

He initially held a professorship at the University of Toulouse and later at the Collège de France .

Work and thinking

In the years before the First World War he was considered to be the French representative of the development of a symbolic logic , such as Charles Peirce , Giuseppe Peano , Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell strived for.

In 1896 he published his first work, De l'infini mathematique ; La logique de Leibniz followed in 1901 , a detailed study in which the philosopher's legacy is processed, which was only cataloged in 1895. Much of the reception of Leibniz's work in the 20th century is based on Couturat's preparatory work. He also translated Russell's Principles of Mathematics into French.

In 1900, together with the French philosopher Xavier Léon, he organized the first International Congress of Philosophy in Paris, the forerunner of today's World Congress of Philosophy .

In 1907, Couturat appeared as the main author of the planned language Ido (the role of Louis de Beaufront in the development of the Esperanto derivative is largely unclear) and stood up for it until the end of his life.

The staunch pacifist Couturat died at the time of the First World War : he was killed in his car in a collision with an army vehicle.

Web links

Commons : Louis Couturat  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W Boyd Rayward: Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époque . 2014, ISBN 978-1-4094-4225-7 , pp. 111 .