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==Book Description==
Why bother to praise [[mathematics]] when you [[claim]], as [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] does, that [[philosophy]] is first and foremost a [[metaphysics]] of [[happiness]], or else it’s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible [[relationship]] can there be between mathematics and happiness?
That is precisely the issue at stake in this dialogue, which serves as a very accessible introduction to what mathematics is and an exploration of the crucial influence it has always exerted on the greatest [[philosophers]]. Far from the thankless, pointless exercises they are often [[thought]] to be, mathematics and [[logic]] are indispensable guides to ridding ourselves of dominant opinions and making possible an access to truths, or to a [[human]] [[experience]] of the utmost [[value]]. That is why mathematics may well be the shortest path to the [[true]] [[life]], which, when it [[exists]], is characterized by an incomparable happiness.
