Nicolas Bourbaki
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Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, predominantly French alumni of the École normale supérieure. Founded in 1934–1935, the Bourbaki group originally intended to
Charles-Denis Bourbaki, 19th-century general and namesake of the collective
Gaston Julia (right), who was not a member of Bourbaki, lost his nose during World War I. The war created a lost generation of mathematical knowledge, which the Bourbaki founders sought to fill.
Sign marking the official founding of Bourbaki in Besse-en-Chandesse
First book of the Éléments de mathématique, 1970 edition
Mathematical logic
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Mathematical logic is the study of formal logic within mathematics. Major subareas include model theory, proof theory, set theory, and recursion theory. Research in mathematical logic commonly address
Portrait of young Kurt Gödel as a student in Vienna, 1925
