Subject: sci.math FAQ: Who is Bourbaki?
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:16:16 GMT
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Who is N. Bourbaki?



   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).

   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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    alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca
    Tue Apr 04 17:26:57 EDT 1995
