The artist and the mathematician : the story of Nicholas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who neve...
The artist and the mathematician : the story of Nicholas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who neve...
The artist and the mathematician : the story of Nicholas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed / Amir D. Aczel.
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Publisher
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N510.92/21
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English
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Physical content
239 p. : ill., port. ; 20 cm.
Contents
1 The disappearance -- 2 An arrest in Finland -- 3 Escape -- 4 Arrival in Paris -- 5 The general and the zeitgeist -- 6 When Braque met Picasso -- 7 The cafe -- 8 The achievements of Bourbaki -- 9 Bourbaki's reign -- 10 Claude Levi-Strauss and the birth of structuralism -- 11 The linguistic origins...
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Publisher
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2006.
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"A real-life mathematical mystery Nicolas Bourbaki was perhaps the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century. Responsible for the emergence of the "new math" that swept through American and foreign education systems in the middle of the century, Bourbaki originated the modern concept of the mathematical proof and is credited with the introduc...
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The artist and the mathematician : the story of Nicholas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed / Amir D. Aczel.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index.
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N510.92/21
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74VKKVj6jwed
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKVj6jwed
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9781560259312
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510.92
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991021862429702626
