Nicolas Bourbaki

Literature

Histories of Bourbaki

• Henri Cartan, Nicolas Bourbaki und die heutige Mathematik, Cologne and Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1959. (in German)
  • "Nicolas Bourbaki and contemporary mathematics", Mathematical Intelligencer 2 (4) (December 1980), pp 175-180. [1]
• J. Fang, Bourbaki: Towards a Philosophy of Modern Mathematics I, Hauppage, New York: Paideia, 1969, 144 pp.
• Liliane Beaulieu, Bourbaki" Une histoire du groupe de mathematiciens francais et de ses travaux (1934-1944), Montreal University, 1990, 552 pp. Ph. D. thesis, 2 Volumes. (in French)
• Liliane Beaulieu, "A Parisian Café and Ten Proto-Bourbaki Meetings (1934-1935)", Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 15, No. 1. (1993), pp 27-35.
• Liliane Beaulieu, "Dispelling a Myth: Questions and Answers about Bourbaki’s Early Work, 1934–1944", in The Intersection of History and Mathematics, Basel: Birkhäuser, 1994, pp 241-252.
• Liliane Beaulieu, "Bourbaki's Art of Memory", Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 14 (1999), Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory, pp 219-251.
• David Aubin, "Chapter II: Structures", in A Cultural History of Catastrophes and Chaos: Around the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France 1958-1980, Princeton University, 1998. Ph. D. thesis.
• David Aubin, "War Cultures in Postwar French Mathematics: A Critique of the Bourbaki and Forman Theses", 2007. Paper presented at the conference The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis.
• Michele Chouchan, Nicolas Bourbaki: Faites et legendes, Editions du Choix, 1995, 172 pp. (in French)
• Liliane Beaulieu, Nicolas Bourbaki: History And Legend, 1934-1956, Springer, 2006, 350 pp.
• Bourbaki bibliography compiled by Liliane Beaulieu, 2013.