Mathematician:Nicolas Bourbaki

Nicolas Bourbaki is the name given to a group of (mainly) French mathematicians whose aim was to present an account of the entirety of modern mathematics, with an emphasis on rigour and generality. The term Bourbakism is a disparaging term for a supposed modern tendency to define intuitively simple concepts in terms of ever more abstruse and abstract concepts until the obvious becomes incomprehensible.

Nationality
French (mainly).

History

 * Established: 1935

Theorems and Definitions

 * Bourbaki-Witt Theorem

Books and Papers

 * 1949: Sur le théorème de Zorn: Archiv der Mathematik 2:6: 434–437.


 * The Éléments de mathématique (Elements of Mathematics) series, which contains the following volumes:
 * I: Théorie des Ensembles
 * II: Algèbre (Algebra)
 * III: Topologie Générale (General Topology)
 * IV: Fonctions d'Une Variable Réelle (Functions of One Real Variable)
 * V: Espaces Vectoriels Topologiques (Topological Vector Spaces)
 * VI: Intégration (Integration)
 * VII: Algèbre Commutative (Commutative Algebra)
 * VIII: Groupes et Algèbres de Lie (Lie Groups)
 * IX: Théories spectrales (Spectral theory)