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Nicolas Bourbaki
![Bourbaki congress at [[Dieulefit]] in 1938. From left, [[Simone Weil]],{{efn|Simone Weil was not a member of the group; she was a philosopher, not a mathematician. However she attended multiple early conferences to support her brother André, and also to learn mathematics.{{sfn|Aczel|pp=123–25}}}} [[Charles Pisot]], [[André Weil]], [[Jean Dieudonné]] (sitting), [[Claude Chabauty]], [[Charles Ehresmann]], and [[Jean Delsarte]].{{sfn|Mashaal|p=31}}](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Bourbaki_congress1938.png)
Bourbaki was founded in response to the effects of the First World War which caused the death of a generation of French mathematicians; as a result, young university instructors were forced to use dated texts. While teaching at the University of Strasbourg, Henri Cartan complained to his colleague André Weil of the inadequacy of available course material, which prompted Weil to propose a meeting with others in Paris to collectively write a modern analysis textbook. The group's core founders were Cartan, Claude Chevalley, Jean Delsarte, Jean Dieudonné and Weil; others participated briefly during the group's early years, and membership has changed gradually over time. Although former members openly discuss their past involvement with the group, Bourbaki has a custom of keeping its current membership secret.
The group's name derives from the 19th century French general Charles-Denis Bourbaki, who had a career of successful military campaigns before suffering a dramatic loss in the Franco-Prussian War. The name was therefore familiar to early 20th-century French students. Weil remembered an ENS student prank in which an upperclassman posed as a professor and presented a "theorem of Bourbaki"; the name was later adopted.
The Bourbaki group holds regular private conferences for the purpose of drafting and expanding the ''Éléments''. Topics are assigned to subcommittees, drafts are debated, and unanimous agreement is required before a text is deemed fit for publication. Although slow and labor-intensive, the process results in a work which meets the group's standards for rigour and generality. The group is also associated with the Séminaire Bourbaki, a regular series of lectures presented by members and non-members of the group, also published and disseminated as written documents. Bourbaki maintains an office at the ENS.
Nicolas Bourbaki was influential in 20th-century mathematics, particularly during the middle of the century when volumes of the ''Éléments'' appeared frequently. The group is noted among mathematicians for its rigorous presentation and for introducing the notion of a mathematical structure, an idea related to the broader, interdisciplinary concept of structuralism. Bourbaki's work informed the New Math, a trend in elementary math education during the 1960s. Although the group remains active, its influence is considered to have declined due to infrequent publication of new volumes of the ''Éléments''. However, since 2012 the group has published four new (or significantly revised) volumes, the most recent in 2023 (treating spectral theory). Moreover, at least three further volumes are under preparation. Provided by Wikipedia
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General topology by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Topological vector spaces by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Lie groups and Lie algebras by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Lie groups and Lie algebras by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Algèbre. Chapitre 8, Modules et anneaux semi-simples [New ed.]. by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Théories spectrales, chapitres 1 et 2 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Algèbre. Chapitres 1 à 3 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Topologie générale. Chapitres 1 à 4 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Éléments d'histoire des mathématiques by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Fonctions d'une variable réelle : théorie élémentaire by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Groupes et algèbres de Lie. Chapitre 9 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Algèbre commutative. Chapitre 10 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Variétés différentielles et analytiques : fascicule de resultats by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Algèbre. Chapitres 4-7 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Topologie générale. Chapitres 5 à 10 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Groupes et algèbres de Lie. Chapitres 4 à 6 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Espaces vectoriels topologiques. Chapitres 1 à 5 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Intégration. Chapitre 6 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Intégration. Chapitres 1 à 4 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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Intégration. Chapitre 5 by Bourbaki, Nicolas
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