[FOM] Bourbaki qua philosopher
Robert Black
Mongre at gmx.de
Sun Jan 4 04:30:48 EST 2004
In December 1948 Bourbaki gave a talk to the ASL meeting at Columbus
Ohio which was then printed in JSL March 1949 as (the surprisingly
uninteresting) 'Foundations of Mathematics for the Working
Mathematician'. Does anyone happen to know how, physically, a
pseudonym gave a talk?
The point of my question is another question: to what extent can one
identify the philosophical obiter dicta which one finds in Bourbaki
with the personal views of Jean Dieudonné? To put it crudely: is
Bourbaki-philosophe just Dieudonné? (part-for-whole: I think
rhetoricians call this synecdoche)
Robert
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