March 28, 2017 Tuesday
Bedtime Story
The Bourbaki Group and Their
Nicolas Bourbaki was a group of French mathematicians that was
formed in Paris.
Hence it should actually be called the Bourbaki group or
officially “Association of Collaborators of Nicolas Bourbaki”.
It was founded by the Paris born (1906) French mathematician André
Weil who eventually ended up becoming a faculty member of the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton.
(The same institute that gave shelter to helpless but brilliant
German minds such as Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein).
Between 1930 and 1932, he spent two years at the Aligarh Muslim
University, situated in the gigantic state of Uttar Pradesh of India.
These two years it seems had a deep impact on his psyche as since
then onwards, in spite being an agnostic, he became greatly attracted to the
Hindu philosophical thought.
It was André Weil who organized the first meet of this singular
group on December 10, 1934 in the basement of a grill room in Paris.
The group included even his sister Simone Weil, though she was
more of a philosopher and a mystic rather than a mathematician or logician.
The aim to collect this group was to produce and publish books on
mathematics that would be used for teaching.
One of this group’s masterpiece was a 12-volume Elements of
Mathematic.
In French, it goes by the name Éléments de mathématique.
If you happen to notice, the word mathematics has been
intentionally kept to singular mathematic to convey the message that the set of
twelve volumes is in fact a single entity as a whole.
The twelve books in the series are as follows:
1. Set theory
2. Algebra
3. Topology
4. Functions of a Real Variable
5. Topological vector spaces
6. Integration
7. Commutative algebra
8. Differential manifolds
9. Lie groups and algebras
10. Spectral theory
11. History of Mathematics
12. Algebraic Topology
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While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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