all this summer, Scientific conversation It explores step by step the different aspects of fiction, particularly those of scientists: How does he think and what does he dream about, scientist? By asking this question, we would like to give radioactive material to the philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s thesis according to which reason and imagination always work together. Firstly, because they share mind-moving, not being satisfied with first evidence and distrusting common sense. secondly, because they unite like the sail and dagger-board of a boat: each, if carried out in isolation, hardly allows us to proceed, but, when enacted together, imprints progress.
Today, in the imagination of mathematicians we will penetrate, thanks to the lights of one of the most remarkable:
Alan Kunis : Mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, where he holds the Chair in Analysis and Geometry. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982. Just published with psychoanalyst Patrick Gauthier-Lafayé
In the shadow of Grothendieck and Lacan, A teeters on the unconscious (Odile Jacob).
