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The book by Mashaal and a book by Aczel (which I enjoyed) were reviewed by Michael Atiyah (1966 Fields Medalist): "Bourbaki, A Secret Society of Mathematicians" (Maurice Mashaal) and "The Artist and the Mathematician" (Amir Aczel) - Notices of the American Mathematical Society, v. 54, no. 9, October, 2007 - https://www.ams.org/notices/200709/tx070901150p.pdf

There have been numerous articles about Bourbaki, including some by former Bourbaki members:

"The Work of Bourbaki During the Last Thirty Years" - Jean Dieudonne - Notices of the American Mathematical Society, v. 29, no. 7, November, 1982 - https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/198211/198211FullIssue....

"Twenty-Five Years with Nicolas Bourbaki, 1949–1973" - Armand Borel - Notices of the American Mathematical Society, v. 45, no. 3, March, 1998 - https://www.ams.org//journals/notices/199803/borel.pdf

Edit: fixed typo

kzz102 · 45m ago

It's interesting that while Bourbaki had a large influence on modern mathematics, very few people read their books (at least among the people I know). In a sense, their project of producing a definitive exposition for a large part of mathematics has failed. I wonder whether it's because different branches of mathematics have their unique personalities, and therefore the attempt to provide a unified point of view are bound to fail.

madcaptenor · 18m ago

Also mathematicians tend to not read "the classics" of the field. Do the people you know read other math books from the same time period?

throwaway81523 · 2m ago

Yes, Whitaker & Watson (analysis), Hardy and Wright (number theory), Dieudonne (analysis and he was literally a Bourbaki member), heck, Euclid's Elemennts; Gauss Disquisitiones, etc. Bourbaki is more of a monument. Writing it was necessary, but for readers it suffices to know that is there ;).

kirubakaran · 34m ago

We had our own: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

tzury · 1h ago

this is the link I posted. not sure why it got modified

https://books.google.ae/books?id=-CXn6y_1nJ8C&pg=PA18&redir_...

Zambyte · 1h ago

If you want a very deep rabbit hole to go down, look into the connections between the Bourbaki group and Twenty One Pilots lore :)

futura_heavy · 18m ago

He goes by Nico, fwiw.

itsthecourier · 2h ago

https://www.google.com.do/books/edition/Bourbaki/-CXn6y_1nJ8...

this one?

tzury · 1h ago

https://books.google.ae/books?id=-CXn6y_1nJ8C&pg=PA18&redir_...

yes, this is the original link I submitted. not sure why it was modified.

fritzo · 1h ago

"secret society" -> "anonymous publishing group"

Guthur · 42m ago

Potato -> Po Ta To

siliconunit · 38m ago

imagine having to rigorously prove that blood is really essential for the survival of a human being before every surgery, thanks Bourbaki. /s

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