The Bourbaki CodeThe wedding invitation that nearly killed Andre WeilWhen was the Bourbaki wedding?Where is the Royal Poldavian Academy?Where was the Bourbaki wedding? I’m pretty certain I got the intended date & time of the Bourbaki-Pétard wedding...

Because Mandelbrojt, de Possel and Coulomb all held a position at the University Blaise Pascal of Clermont-Ferrand I assumed that the Bourbaki-group had no problem procuring the universities’ biology-outpost in Besse-en-Chandesse for their first...

Over the week-end I read The artist and the mathematician (subtitle : The story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed) by Amir D. Aczel. Whereas the central character of the book should be Bourbaki, it focusses more on two of...

The Bourbaki CodeThe wedding invitation that nearly killed Andre WeilWhen was the Bourbaki wedding?Where is the Royal Poldavian Academy?Where was the Bourbaki wedding? Among the items found on Andre Weil at the time of his arrest was “a packet of...

The Bourbaki CodeThe wedding invitation that nearly killed Andre WeilWhen was the Bourbaki wedding?Where is the Royal Poldavian Academy?Where was the Bourbaki wedding? It’s great fun trying to decode some of the puns contained in Betti Bourbaki’s...