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at the Saint-Paul d' Eyjeaux prison camp from where he escaped at the end of December 1942. The book Cavaillès wrote in prison in Montpellier in 1942 was published posthumously in 1946, edited by the epistemologist
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said, "A philosopher-mathematician loaded with explosives, lucid and reckless, resolute without optimism. If that's not a hero, what is a hero?" (Translated from the original
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with whom he created a small group of resistance fighters, known as "the Last Column". To reach a broader audience, they created a newspaper which was to become
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After the outbreak of World War II, he was mobilized in 1939 as an infantry lieutenant with the 43rd Regiment and was later attached to the Staff of the 4th
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Betrayed by one of his liaison officers, he was arrested on 28 August 1943 in Paris with his sister and her brother-in-law. Tortured, imprisoned in
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correspondence. He was a teaching assistant at the École Normale Supérieure between 1929 and 1935, then teacher at the lycée d'Amiens (now
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to pass into the Southern Zone, and Cavaillès headed the network and formed similar groups in Belgium and the north of France.
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movement in order to dedicate himself entirely to direct action. He was in charge of the sabotage of the stores of the
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scholarship in 1929–1930. In 1931 he travelled extensively in Germany; in Göttingen he conceived, jointly with
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under a wooden cross marked "unknown n°5", his body was exhumed in 1946 to be buried in the Crypt in the
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and sought by the police, he fled clandestinely to London in February 1943. There he met General
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in 1919 and baccalauréats in mathematics and philosophy the following year, he studied at the
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competitive exam. He began graduate studies in Philosophy in 1928 under the supervision of
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De l'expérience mathématique. Essai sur la philosophie des sciences de Jean Cavaillès
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Back in France on 15 April he resigned from the management Committee of the
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Sur la deuxième définition des ensemble finis donnée par Dedekind
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Remarques sur la formation de la théorie abstraite des ensembles
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Remarques sur la formation de la théorie abstraite des ensembles
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Writing the History of Mathematics – Its Historical Development
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Jean Cavaillès : Un philosophe dans la guerre, 1903-1944
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Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes And Thinkers
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Officier de l'Ordre de la Couronne de Belgique (avec palme)
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Concept - Cahiers pour l'Analyse (An electronic edition)
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Jean Cavaillès: A Philosopher in Time of War, 1903-1944
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Philosophy of the concept, dialectics of the concept (
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Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
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Noether and J. Cavaillès, 580:L'école de Vienne au Congrès de Prague 359:. It served as the mouthpiece of both 876:, Paris: Éditions Allia, 2004, p. 35. 385:In April 1942, at the instigation of 320:in Philosophy. He was then appointed 217: 7: 902:Azema, Jean-Pierre and Aglan, Alya. 555:Médaille de la Résistance (Belgique) 349:At the end of December 1940, he met 222:; 15 May 1903 – 4 April 1944) was a 16:French philosopher and mathematician 925:Jean Cavaillès philosophe résistant 785:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 428:Denounced as a public enemy by the 1095:20th-century French mathematicians 1065:Recipients of the Resistance Medal 914:Revue de métaphysique et de morale 660:Revue de métaphysique et de morale 584:Revue de métaphysique et de morale 14: 821:Méthode axiomatique et formalisme 634:Méthode axiomatique et formalisme 244:movement and was arrested by the 23:. 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Index

Jules Cavaillès
Len de l'El

Saint-Maixent
Arras
École Normale Supérieure
University of Paris
20th-century philosophy
Western philosophy
School
Continental philosophy
French historical epistemology
Philosophy of mathematics
/ˌkævˈɛs/
[ʒɑ̃kavajɛs]
French philosopher
philosophy of mathematics
philosophy of science
French Resistance
Libération
Gestapo
Saint-Maixent
Deux-Sèvres
baccalauréat
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
classes préparatoires
École Normale Supérieure
agrégation
Léon Brunschvicg
Rockefeller Foundation

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