Nicolas Bourbaki - The Bourbaki perspective

The underlying drive, in Weil and Chevalley at least, was the perceived need for French mathematics to absorb the best ideas of the Göttingen school and the German algebraists. It is fairly clear that the Bourbaki point of view, while encyclopedic, was never intended as neutral. Quite the opposite, really: more a question of trying to make a consistent whole out of some enthusiasms, for example for Hilbert's legacy, with emphasis on formalism and axiomatics. But always through a transforming proces ...

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