Eléments de mathématique
work by Bourbaki
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algebra
- In algebra: Bourbaki
…collection of extremely influential textbooks, Eléments de mathématique, that covered several central mathematical disciplines, particularly from a structural perspective. Yet, to the extent that Bourbaki’s mathematics was structural, it was so in a general, informal way. As van der Waerden extended to all of algebra the structural approach that Steinitz…
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set theory
- In set theory
…expressed in the Nicolas Bourbaki Éléments de mathématique (begun 1939; “Elements of Mathematics”): “Nowadays it is known to be possible, logically speaking, to derive practically the whole of known mathematics from a single source, The Theory of Sets.”
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