The Bourbaki Group Publishes Éléments de mathématique
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Science
- Subcategories: Mathematics, Mathematicians, Scientists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
- Geographical Location: Paris
- Date: 1939
Article abstract: The “Bourbaki circle” of French mathematicians published the first of more than sixty monographs surveying and synthesizing the abstract structure of extant operational mathematics.
Summary of Event
From the publications of Georg Cantor, Giuseppe Peano, through the logicist work of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), to the formal axiomatics of David Hilbert’s Grundlagen der Geometrie (1899; The Foundations of Geometry, 1902) and Grundzüge der Theoretischen...
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