Nicolas Bourbaki does not exist. This name is used as a pseudonym for a group of mainly French mathematicians who started publishing collectively in 1939 (the year of birth given above). The stated aim of the Bourbaki group is to produce a modern...

Nicolas Bourbaki is the pen name of a group of mathematicians, most of them French, who have undertaken the writing of a definitive treatise of modern mathematics. The Bourbaki volumes emphasize the highest degree of mathematical rigor and the...

Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of...

THE ARTIST AND THE MATHEMATICIAN: THE STORY OF NICOLAS BOURBAKI, THE GENIUS MATHEMATICIAN WHO NEVER EXISTED by Amir D. Aczel Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2006, 239 pp. ISBN: 1-56025-931-0 While Nicolas Bourbaki is long dead (or in another sense, never lived), he...

THE ARTIST AND THE MATHEMATICIAN: The Story of NIcolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed AMIR D. ACZEL In the early part of the past century, influential French mathematicians such as Alexandre Grothendieck, Andre Weil, Henri Cartan, and others were...