Vladimir Arnold
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Vladimir Igorevich Arnold was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems, and contributed to several are
Arnold in 2008
Arnold in 1963
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
Vladimir Arnold
…books, he influenced many mathematicians and physicists. Many of his books were translated into English. His views on education were opposed to those of Bourbaki. A controversial and often quoted dictum of his is "Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap". The Arnold principle: "Discoveries…
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