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 | | From: | gumby | | Subject: | Bourbaki needs a hand | | Date: | Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:40:09 -0600 |
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 | I am being stalked by an out of work Frenchman(Bourbaki). You all
have seen the post. So I have decided to do something about it. If
anybody here knows of job openings please post here.
BTW, he may have drug problems. So please only list jobs from
countries where this is legal.
Please help him, before it is to late. Anything will do.
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| | From: | Bourbaki | | Subject: | Re: Bourbaki needs a hand | | Date: | Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:55:07 -0600 |
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| Nicoulas Bourbaki:
An important movement in twentieth-century mathematics was generated by
the polycephalic mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki who published,
beginning in 1939, a series of books which presented advanced
mathematics in a highly abstract format. Much folklore has grown up
around him, so this is an interesting topic for investigation.
You are encouraged to read some of his works, either in the original
French or in English translation. One novelty of the works are the
historical notes that are attached. Read some of them and discuss what
you think of them as history. These notes have been collected into a
single volume entitled Elements of the History of Mathematics,
translated from the French by John Meldrum, Springer, c1994. An
interesting side project would be to compare portions of this to what
you can find in the standard histories of mathematics on the same
topic.
References:
# Liliane Beaulieu, "A Parisian cafe and ten proto-Bourbaki meetings
(1934-1935)," The Mathematical Intelligencer, 15:1 (1993), 27-35.
Professor Beaulieu has delved deeply into the history of the Bourbaki
movement, including interviewing many of the participants. Check
MathSciNet for her other publications on Bourbaki.
# Ralph Boas, "Bourbaki and me," The Mathematical Intelligencer, 8:4
(1986), 84-85. Reprinted, along with other relevant items in, Lion
Hunting & Other Mathematical Pursuits; A Collection of Mathematics,
Verse and Stories by Ralph P. Boas, Jr., MAA, 1995 (edited by Gerald L.
Alexanderson and Dale H. Mugler)
# Paul Halmos, "Nicolas Bourbaki," Scientific American, 196:5 (May
1957), 88-99.
# A. R. D. Mathias, The ignorance of Bourbaki, The Mathematical
Intelligencer, 14:3 (1992), 4-13. Abstracted in the CMJ Media
Highlights, 23 (1992), 442.
# E. Roy Weintraub and Philip Mirowski, "The pure and the applied:
Bourbakism comes to mathematical economics," Science in Context, 7:2
(1994), 245-272.
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| | From: | gumby | | Subject: | Re: Bourbaki needs a hand | | Date: | Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:07:38 -0600 |
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| Don't worry, we will find you a job.
BTW, I got the name. I also know you. Your a out of work French guy
with drug addiction, who has choosen to stalk me. Again, don't worry we
will get you a job.
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