Nicolas Bourbaki

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 mathematics on set theory, the group strove for utmost rigour and generality, creating some new terminology and concepts along the way.

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Pseudonym - French - 20th-century - Mathematician - Mathematics - 1935 - Set theory - Rigour

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While Nicolas Bourbaki is an invented personage, the Bourbaki group is officially known as the Association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki ("association of collaborators of Nicolas Bourbaki"), which has an office at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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École Normale Supérieure - Paris

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