Etymology

Bourbakism

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Today it means: A 20th-century French movement aiming to found all of mathematics on set theory. Full definition →

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  1. French · derived frombourbakisme
  2. English todayBourbakism

From French bourbakisme, equivalent to French Bourbaki + -ism, after the fictional Nicolas Bourbaki, collective pseudonym for a group of French mathematicians.

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