Les Enjeux Du Mobile

[The stakes of the mobile: Mathematics, physics, philosophy] directly confronts the fundamental problems of mathematical thought’s mobility, and of its natural osmoses with physics and philosophy. Chitelet’s text puts several sui generis perspectives to work on the spectrum of mathematical philosophy: an opening onto a sort of primacy of the visual in mathematical practice (thereby bringing to bear part of Merleau-Ponty’s general phenomenological program in the context of mathematics); a special sensitivity to the mobile emergence of mathematical concepts and ‘things’, owing to a study of the gestures and processes on the border of the virtual and the actual; careful attention to and subtle analysis of the metaphorical webs that accompany the doing of mathematics, and govern its interlacings with physics and philosophy.