Nicolas Bourbaki



Biography

Nicolas Bourbaki is the pseudonym of a group of (mainly) French mathematicians who publish an authoritative account of contemporary mathematics.

More information is available in two articles:

Bourbaki: the pre-war years and Bourbaki: the post-war years

The founding members of the organisation were:

Henri Cartan
Claude Chevalley
Jean Coulomb
Jean Delsarte
Jean Dieudonné
Charles Ehresmann
Szolem Mandelbrojt
René de Possel
André Weil


References (show)

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Additional Resources (show)

Other pages about Nicolas Bourbaki:

  1. A Walk Around Paris

Cross-references (show)


Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Last Update December 2005