“The remarkable conceptual connection affirmed here [by the…
“A great theory, which had to show itself capable of providing a universal…
“But [there are] also so many other [numbers than our traditional…
“And this is the problem: is it possible to identify a Number as…
“…along with reals and ordinals, [the surreals] contain an…
“The impasse of ontology — the quantitative un-measure of the set of parts of a…
“[After much technical research] I came to think that it was necessary to…
“The thesis that I support does not in any way declare that being is mathematical, which is to say composed of mathematical objectivities. It is not a thesis about the world but about discourse. It affirms that mathematics, throughout the…
“I would like this publication to mark an obvious fact: the nullity of the opposition between analytic thought and continental thought. And I would like this book to be read, appreciated, staked out, and contested as much by the inheritors of the formal…
“The militant of truth is not only the political militant working for the emancipation of humanity in its entirety. He or she is also the artist-creator, the scientist who opens up a new theoretical field, or the lover whose world is enchanted.” - Alain Badiou…