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	Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki - LoveToKnow 1911
		CHARLES DENIS SAUTER BOURBAKI (1816-1897), French general, was born at Pau on the 22nd of April 1816, the son of a Greek colonel who died in the War of Independence in 1827.
		Bourbaki at once went to England, with Prussian connivance, as though he had a recognized mission, only to discover from the empress at Hastings that a trick had been played on him; and as soon as he could manage he returned to France.
		Bourbaki himself, rather than submit to the humiliation of a probable surrender, on the 26th of January 1871 delegated his functions to General Clinchant, and in the night fired a pistol at his own head, but the bullet, owing to a deviation of the weapon, was flattened against his skull and his life was saved.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Charles_Denis_Sauter_Bourbaki (640 words)

	PlanetMath: Bourbaki, Nicolas
		Bourbaki felt that the old mathematical divisions were no longer valid comparing them to ancient zoological divisions.
		Bourbaki sent him a telegram summarizing the congress, it read : “union intersection partie produit tu es démembré foutu Bourbaki” (union intersection subset product you are dismembered screwed Bourbaki).[WA] During a congress any member was allowed to interrupt to criticize, comment or ask questions at any time.
		The Bourbaki books were the first to have such a tight organization, the first to use an axiomatic presentation.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/NicolasBourbaki.html (2850 words)

	Charles Denis Bourbaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bourbaki at once went to England, with Prussian connivance, as though he had a recognized mission, only to discover from the empress at Hastings that a trick had been played on him; and as soon as he could manage he returned to France.
		In command of the hastily-trained and ill-equipped Army of the East, Bourbaki made the attempt to raise the siege of Belfort, which, after the victory of Villersexel, ended in the repulse of the French in the three days' battle of the Lisaine.
		Bourbaki himself, rather than submit to the humiliation of a probable surrender, on January 26, 1871 delegated his functions to General Clinchant, and in the night fired a pistol at his own head, but the bullet, owing to a deviation of the weapon, was flattened against his skull and his life was saved.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Denis_Bourbaki (651 words)

	Nicolas Bourbaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While Nicolas Bourbaki is an invented personage, the Bourbaki group is officially known as the Association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki ("association of collaborators of Nicolas Bourbaki"), which has an office at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
		The name "Bourbaki" refers to a French general Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki who was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War; it was adopted by the group as a reference to a student anecdote about a hoax mathematical lecture, and also possibly to a statue.
		Bourbaki's history of mathematics, later gathered as a separate book, suffers in contrast not from lack of scholarship — but from the attitude that history should be written by the victors in the struggle to attain axiomatic clarity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki (1668 words)

	Nickieben Bourbaki
		Nickieben Bourbaki was born September 12, 1950, in Haverhill, Massachusetts to George Lanouette and Joyce Snow.
		Nick Bourbaki (not related to the famous "mathematician") was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
		Nick Bourbaki is in the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona, where he is studying the mysterious death of John Ringo in 1882.
	www.dreamsongs.com /Nickieben.html (1021 words)

	Nicolas Bourbaki - Wikipedia
		Nicolas Bourbaki ist das kollektive Pseudonym einer Gruppe zumeist französischer Mathematiker, die seit 1934 an einem Lehrbuch der Mathematik, den Éléments de mathématique, arbeitete und mehrmals jährlich ein Wochenendseminar in Paris veranstaltete.
		Bourbaki sah es nicht als seine Aufgabe an, neues mathematisches Wissen zu schaffen.
		Bald nach Gründung der Gruppe wurde Szolem Mandelbrojt hinzugezogen, in den 1940ern Laurent Schwartz und Jean-Pierre Serre.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki (817 words)

	Nicolas Bourbaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nicolas Bourbaki is the pseudonym under which a group of mainly French 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books of exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935.
		The influence of Bourbaki's work has decreased over time, partly because some of their abstractions did not prove as useful as initially thought, and partly because other abstractions which are now considered to be important, such as the machinery of category theory, are not covered.
		"Bourbaki" is the name of a French general who was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War; the name was adopted by the group as a reference to a student anecdote about a hoax mathematical lecture, and also possibly to a statue.
	www.enlightenweb.net /n/ni/nicolas_bourbaki.html (800 words)

	Proof - washingtonpost.com
		Though Bourbaki's fictional status is given away in the title of the book, Aczel coyly treats Bourbaki as a real individual for the first few chapters.
		Perhaps this was because it allows him to assert that Bourbaki "was the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century." Other mathematicians have a stronger claim, at least based upon the profundity of their works.
		Bourbaki, argues Aczel, was a product of the zeitgeist that gave birth to Cubism and Dada; Bourbaki, in turn, inspired revolutions within anthropology and literature.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201158.html (604 words)

	Notes on the War. Engels 1870-71.
		Bourbaki’s army, 133,000 men with 330 guns, was, it appears, scarcely deserving the name of an army.
		Thus Bourbaki had a full month to work in; and when after the time thus given him his troops arrived in presence of the enemy in the state described, he cannot possibly be considered free from blame.
		Bourbaki’s young troops were thus put to the severest task which can be found for a soldier in battle, while their own superior numbers would have rendered it easier to carry the position by manoeuvring.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1871/02/18.htm (1042 words)

	oc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is well known that the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki was introduced by a group of French mathematicians in the 30thes.
		Second, because the Bourbaki group worked in a strange and original way, which was atypical for scientists.
		Bourbaki - or the group - was the final author.
	mmf.ruc.dk /mathnet/bourbaki.htm (289 words)

	VRMAG - 19th CENTURY PAINTED BOURBAKI PANORAMA
		The Bourbaki Museum in Luzern Switzerland houses Edourard Castres’ circular painting depicting the hopeless situation of a defeated army that has fled to the Swiss border during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.
		Bourbaki attempted suicide and his army of 87,000 surrendered and crossed the border, where the Swiss gave them a warm welcome.
		Beginning in the 1830s, panoramas were often enhanced with a faux-terrain of three-dimensional figures and props; the Bourbaki panorama has over 20 figures, a railroad car, scattered army and background sound that bring it to life.
	vrm.vrway.com /issue12/19th_CENTURY_PAINTED_BOURBAKI_PANORAMA.html (577 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bourbaki, Nicolas (Mathematics) - Encyclopedia
		The pseudonym was jokingly adopted from Gen. Charles Bourbaki, becuase of his disastrous defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
		The principal aim of the Bourbaki group (L'Association des Collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki) is to provide a solid foundation for the whole body of modern mathematics.
		The method of exposition is axiomatic and abstract, logically coherent and rigorous, proceeding normally from the general to the particular, a style found to be not altogether congenial to many readers.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BourbakiN.html (282 words)

	The Bourbaki view
		For whereas in the past it was thought that every branch of mathematics depended on its own particular intuitions which provided its concepts and prime truths, nowadays it is known to be possible, logically speaking, to derive practically the whole of known mathematics from a single source, the Theory of Sets.
		In the IMPS terminology [farmer-imps] the Bourbaki system is a 'big theory' rather than a mosaic of 'little theories'.
		The stated purpose of the Bourbaki treatise is 'to provide a solid foundation for the whole body of modern mathematics'.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/logic/jrh0105.htm (955 words)

	The Many Faces of Nicolas Bourbaki (b. 1935) - Numericana
		Bourbaki brought about new riguor based on the logical foundations of mathematics (and also, along the way, some controversial reforms in mathematical teaching).
		Jean Leray (1906-1998) and Paul Dubreil (1904-1994) were present at preliminary meetings before the actual foundation of the Bourbaki group.
		But for the last 20 years, it has been increasingly doubted: First because Bourbaki began to drown in its own need to be general enough, and they never could be sure when to stop (e.g., before doing the reals, they need a general theory of topological fields).
	home.att.net /~numericana/fame/bourbaki.htm (515 words)

	sci.math FAQ: Who is Bourbaki?
		A group of mostly French mathematicians which began meeting in the 1930s, aiming to write a thorough unified account of all mathematics.
		There is a usable book Bourbaki by J. Fang.
		The history behind Bourbaki is also described in Scientific American, May 1957.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/sci-math-faq/bourbaki (175 words)

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		Bourbaki, or rather the men behind the name, undertook the task of producing a fully axiomatized presentation of mathematics in entirety.
		Bourbaki felt was concerned with the effects that had been produced from the rapid development of twentieth century mathematics.
		Bourbaki wrote from a rigid abstrcact approach and didn't stray from the arguments at hand.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Mathlinks/Bourbaki.html (1001 words)

	Association Bourbaki - Wikipédia
		L'association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki est un groupe de mathématiciens français créé en 1935.
		Le nom imaginaire de Nicolas Bourbaki a été choisi en souvenir d'un canular faisant référence au général Charles Denis Bourbaki.
		L'origine du nom de Nicolas Bourbaki est en fait un canular.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Association_Bourbaki (299 words)

	The arrival of Bourbaki's army at Les Verrières
		Their horses, most of which had not been unharnessed for weeks, were reduced to skin and bone; they had not been shod for winter conditions and when they fell on the ice were unable to stand up again.
		However, the retreat of Bourbaki's army was still too fresh in the memory for this question to be passed over.
		Indeed, the reception of the "Bourbakis" was the first major aid operation conducted by the Swiss Red Cross [23].
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList152/D27282303F3B49F3C1256B660059F34F (4206 words)

	No. 1829: Multiple Authors
		Yet Bourbaki remains a major feature in the landscape of mathematics.
		Their resumes reflected only that they were members of Bourbaki.
		Today, the nearest we get to the Bourbaki model is in certain company reports -- which differ profoundly when they list no names at all.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1829.htm (567 words)

	EMail Msg <9304212041.AA05383@malabar.mitre.org> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		My own feeling is that the influence of the Bourbaki project -- in the sense that is being discussed here, that is the elaboration of a compendium of mathematics from a small number of first principles -- has been relatively insignificant.
		I don't think most of the Bourbaki volumes are as widely read as one would expect.
		A codification of the Bourbaki volumes is (a) much too restrictive and (b) almost guaranteed not to be used by anybody.
	theory.stanford.edu /~uribe/mail/qed.messages/42.html (345 words)

	wiki/Nicolas Bourbaki Definition / wiki/Nicolas Bourbaki Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonymA pseudonym or allonym is a name (sometimes legally adopted, sometimes purely fictitious) used by an individual as an alternative to their birth name.
		The term "abstract algebra" is used to distinguish the field from "elementary algebra" or "high school algebra" which teaches the correct rules for manipulating formulas and algebraic expressions involving real and complex numbers....
		It permits velocity, acceleration, and the slope of a curve at a given point all to be discussed on a common conceptual basis....
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki (3989 words)

	The Bourbaki Ensemble
		The Bourbaki Ensemble is a small string orchestra based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia.
		The Bourbaki Ensemble was founded in early 2001, and since then has been conducted by David Angell.
		Sometimes after Bourbaki Ensemble concerts a free tour is available courtesy of Fran Morris, who draws on her extensive knowledge of the highways and byways of local lore to guide you through the most interesting and historically significant parts of the site.
	users.tpg.com.au /ddangell (2257 words)

	Cartan_Henri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first meeting of the group of mathematicians who called themselves "Bourbaki" took place on 14 January 1935.
		Leray and Paul Dubreil attended the January 1935 meeting, but dropped out before membership of the group was finalised in July of 1935.
		In addition to Henri Cartan the founding members of Bourbaki at that July meeting were André Weil, Jean Dieudonné;, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Claude Chevalley, René de Possel, and Jean Delsarte.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Cartan_Henri.html (1885 words)

	Nicolas Bourbaki Definition / Nicolas Bourbaki Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He was a founder member of the Bourbaki group....
		Nicolas Bourbaki is a unique and interesting event in recent history ofmathematics.
		Nicolas Bourbaki is a consortium of French mathematicians who set out to put all of mathematics together in a coherent series of books.
	www.elresearch.com /Nicolas_Bourbaki (355 words)

	The Albion College Mathematical Society: Home
		It was at one of their first meetings that the young men chose their name: Nicolas Bourbaki.
		Weil's wife was present at the discussion about choosing a name and she became Bourbaki's godmother baptizing him Nicolas.
		According to a later member they were ``those who shaped Bourbaki and gave it much of their time and thought until they retired'' he also claims that some other early contributors were Szolem Mandelbrojt and René de Possel.
	www.albion.edu /mathematicalsociety (862 words)

	Comments by Nick Bourbaki
		Nick Bourbaki commented on Australia to Ban All Plasmas, at 4:00 PM on Oct 10
		Nick Bourbaki commented on Smelly E-Books for College Students, at 8:12 AM on Aug 23
		Nick Bourbaki commented on Craft a killer elevator pitch, at 4:51 PM on Aug 2
	www.lifehacker.com /commenter/bourbaki (212 words)

	Spherical Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Types F* and G* are the roots sytems of type F and G, with coordinates dual to the standard (Bourbaki) coordinates.
		These differ in types B,C,D and G. In the Bourbaki labelling, in types B,C, and D, the double bond or fork is near the node labelled n.
		the short root is labelled 1 in the Bourbaki labelling, and 2 in Gap.) The Gap labelling is useful because the root system spanned by roots 1,2,...,k is of the same type.
	atlas.math.umd.edu /dissemination/spherical/explorer/rootSystem.cgi (174 words)

	A 1
		Als derselbe dann in Bologna einlief, stieg der Bourbaki aus und befand sich auf diese Weise plötzlich in Bologna.
		Trotz dieses Umstandes möchte der Bourbaki jedoch darauf verzichten, daß er zur Finanzierung seines weiteren Lebensunterhaltes in das Gewerbe der berufsmäßigen Schnittlauchhersteller einsteigt.
		Aus dieser Thematik heraus entwickelte der Bourbaki in der Folge entsprechende Aktivitäten, weil er sich der Tatsache bewußt wurde, daß in Deutschland allein jährlich etwa 18.000 Frauen an ihrem Brustkrebs sterben.
	bourbaki.de /A/A1.html (1190 words)

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