The artist and the mathematician : the story of Nicholas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed / Amir D. Aczel.
Pubblicazione:
New York : Thunder's mouth press, 2006.
Descrizione fisica:
239 p. : ill., ritr. ; 20 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. 1. The disappearance 2. An arrest in Finland 3. Escape 4. Arrival in Paris 5. The general and the Zeitgeist 6. When Braque met Picasso 7. The café 8. The achievements of Bourbaki 9. Bourbaki's reign 10. Claude Lévi-Strauss and the birth of structuralism 11. The linguistic origins 12. Structuralism in psychology, psychiatry and economics 13. The literary group Oulipo 14. Alexandre Grothendieck and the IHES 15. The death of Bourbaki and his legacy. Selected bibliography. Notes. Index
