Bourbakism

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noun

A 20th-century French movement aiming to found all of mathematics on set theory.

OriginFrench bourbakisme →
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Meanings

nounBourbakism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA 20th-century French movement aiming to found all of mathematics on set theory.

Origin

  1. Frenchbourbakisme
  2. EnglishBourbakism

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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Bourbakism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bourbakism

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