Pavel Florensky and His World

Athanase Papadopoulos ()
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Athanase Papadopoulos: Université de Strasbourg and CNRS, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée (IRMA) and Centre de Recherche et d’Expérimentation sur l’Acte Artistique (ITI CREAA)

A chapter in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, 2024, pp 801-867 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This is an overview of the life and works of Pavel Florensky, an important and singular figure of the period rightly described as the Silver Age of Russian mathematics, with a substantial overlap with the Silver Age of Russian literature, poetry and philosophy. Florensky is certainly among the great philosophers-theologians of the twentieth century, with a very atypical trajectory of life. His work in philosophy is imbued with mathematical ideas. Talking about his life and works is also an opportunity to reflect upon the Russian mathematical school of the first third of the twentieth century, its philosophical foundations, and the conflicts it underwent. It is also an occasion for discussing poetry, literature, and art during the Russian Silver Age.

Keywords: Pavel Florensky; Mathematics and philosophy; Mathematics and theology; Mathematics and poetry; Contradiction; Antinomy; Mathematics and poetry; Mathematics in Dante; Mathematics of the Russian Silver Age; Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev; Anna Akhmatova; Nikolai Luzin; Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of discontinuity; Mathematics in the twentieth century; 01A60; 01A20; 00A30; 03A10; 03A05 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40846-5_147

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