User talk:JWSchmidt/Blog/13 November 2007

It might be interesting to think of the group of (very very very brilliant) French mathematicians which decided to collaboratively write a series of text book under the pseudonym of Nicholas Bourbaki.

Indeed. What started out as a simple reaction to the teaching situation and to write better textbooks became an endeavour, yet unfinished, to rebuild mathematics from the foundation. Hillgentleman|Talk 02:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Very interesting. I'd like to see a detailed description of how that group collaborated. --JWSchmidt 04:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * You will find plenty. The originator's autobiography The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician  is translated into English. Hillgentleman|Talk 05:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)