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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.

  The history behind Bourbaki is also described in Scientific American,
  May 1957.
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