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Results for criterions: Author: PETIT Marc Modify search criterions 1 match Title The Doeblin affaire: Alfred, Wolfgang and some other ones. About intuition and invention in mathematics and literature Author PETIT Marc Keywords Consciousness/Subconscious, Döblin Alfred, Doeblin Wolfgang, Intuition and invention, Mathematics and Poetry, Probability calculus, Stochastics Topics Epistemology, History of Mathematics Abstract In this essay, Marc Petit, a novelist and professor of German literature, who wrote the main biography of the German probabilist Wolfgang Doeblin, son of the great novelist Alfred Döblin, pays tribute to Professor Bernard Bru, who introduced him to the history of mathematics in the XXth Century and especially to the amazing figure of Wolfgang Doeblin. In these pages, the reader will find some reflexions and comparisons dealing with the problem of intuition and invention in mathematics and poetry or literature and also several extracts of letters on this subject sent to the author by the well-known history of science specialist. Number 176, Winter 2006, special issue: Contribution to the history of probabilities. Tribute issue to Bernard Bru Language   French Read the article Users rights : The entire journal is licensed under a Creative Commons license