bourbaki is dead!; was Re: FOM: Reply to Professor Segal

[Michel Eytan]

Adrian Mathias hath held forth thus at 4:20 pm -0400 2-9-98:

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> Further remarks on Bourbaki
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> A. R. D. MATHIAS
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> Universidad de los Andes, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
[snip]

Since many members of this list seem unaware of it, Bourbaki is dead since
June 1968, when a notice was posted at the Institut Henri Poincare (Paris)
saying as much.

I remember no more the signatories but among them was AFAIK Jacques
Roubaud, a poet and mathematician member of OULIPO (Ouvroir de litterature
potentielle), a close friend of the well-known Category-theorist Jean
Benabou.

Cheers


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