Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym of a group of mostly French 20th-century mathematicians who wrote a series of books aiming to reformulate mathematics on an abstract, rigorous foundation.
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Confirmed by multiple independent, reputable sources including encyclopedic and journalistic accounts, all consistent on key facts.
Sources
- List of mathematics history topics (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://monoskop.org/Nicolas_Bourbaki (monoskop.org)
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-secret-math-society-known-as-nicolas-bourbaki-20201109/ (quantamagazine.org)