Bourbakism

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

Bourbakism (uncountable)

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