Bourbakism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French bourbakisme, equivalent to Bourbaki + -ism, after the fictional Nicolas Bourbaki, collective pseudonym for a group of French mathematicians.
Noun
[edit]Bourbakism (uncountable)
- A 20th-century French movement aiming to found all of mathematics on set theory.