| Title |
The artist and the mathematician : the story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed / Amir D. Aczel. |
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| Publication Info. |
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2006] |
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©2006 |
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| West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction
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510 ACZEL |
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| Description |
239 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-218) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- 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 café -- 8. The achievements of Bourbaki -- 9. Bourbaki's reign -- 10. Claude Lévi-Strauss and the birth of structuralism -- 11. The linguistic origins -- 12. Structuralism in psychology, psychiatry, and economics -- 13. The literary group Oulip -- 14. Alexandre Grothendieck and the IHES -- 15. The death of Bourbaki and his legacy -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
Bourbaki, Nicolas.
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Mathematicians -- History.
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Mathematics -- History.
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| ISBN |
1560259310: $23.95 |
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9781560259312 |
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