L’affaire Doeblin : Alfred, Wolfgang et quelques autres. Regards croisés sur l’expérience créatrice

摘要

In this essay, Marc Petit, a novelist and professor of German literature, who wrote the main biography of the German probabilist Wolfgang Doeblin, son of the great novelist Alfred D?blin, pays tribute to Professor Bernard Bru, who introduced him to the history of mathematics in the XXth Century and especially to the amazing figure of Wolfgang Doeblin. In these pages, the reader will find some reflexions and comparisons dealing with the problem of intuition and invention in mathematics and poetry or literature and also several extracts of letters on this subject sent to the author by the well-known history of science specialist.