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- Subject: sci.math FAQ: Who is Bourbaki?
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- Who is N. Bourbaki?
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- A group of mostly French mathematicians which began meeting in the
- 1930s, aiming to write a thorough unified account of all mathematics.
- They had tremendous influence on the way math is done since. For a
- very accessible sampler see Dieudonne Mathematics: The Music Of Reason
- (Orig. Pour L'honneur De L'esprit Humain).
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- The founding is described in Andre Weil's autobiography, titled
- something like ``memoir of an apprenticeship" (orig. Souvenirs
- D'apprentissage). There is a usable book Bourbaki by J. Fang. Liliane
- Beaulieu has a book forthcoming, which you can sample in ``A Parisian
- Cafe and Ten Proto-Bourbaki Meetings 1934-1935" in the Mathematical
- Intelligencer 15 no.1 (1993) 27-35.
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- The history behind Bourbaki is also described in Scientific American,
- May 1957.
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