title: [Building mathematics in imagination].
abstract: The extraordinary quantitative achievements of contemporary science often hide their qualitative dimension. In mathematics, the understanding of fundamental theoretical phenomena we have got today goes much beyond that achieved in previous periods. This also holds when it comes to the theorisation of mathematical practice.Philosophically, these changes remain largely to be properly analyzed. The present article will address this issue from the point of view of Bachelard's epistemology.
authors.affiliation: UMR 7351 CNRS et université de Nice, Parc Valrose, F-06108, Nice cedex 2, France, frederic.patras@unice.fr.
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Patras