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Deleuze argued that we should look to the practice of mathematics for how to think about life more generally, advocating for a “problematics” that was strongly modeled on particular kinds of mathematical activity (Duffy 2013). The differential calculus and other kinds of mathematics are used by Deleuze to develop a philosophy of difference and repetition. He takes up mathematical concepts from analysis, topology, and algebra, citing the work of mathematicians Gottfried Leibniz, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Richard Dedekind, Emile Galois, Henri Poincaré, Józef Wroński, and post-Kantian philosophers who wrote about mathematics, such as Salomon Maimon, Jean Bordas-Demoulin, Albert Lautman, and Jean Cavaillès.
In this entry, I focus on the role that mathematics plays in his political ontology, as developed in Difference and Repetition (1994) and show how these ideas were further...
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de Freitas, E. (2017). Deleuze, Ontology, and Mathematics. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_374
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