Timeline for Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?
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| Jan 28, 2011 at 16:38 | comment | added | user9072 | @Harry Gindi: Thanks for the classification. The elaboration you give is close to things I heard before. It seems my confusion arose from the fact 'personality' has a slightly different meaning for you an me. | |
| Jan 28, 2011 at 10:57 | comment | added | Jose Brox | A really nice answer to my question. Thanks! | |
| Jan 27, 2011 at 22:13 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | Another thing: I think it was Borel (maybe Cartier?) who said that one of the reasons that Bourbaki essentially dissolved was that there was nobody willing to take up the monumental amount of work and time that Dieudonné dedicated to it (remember that he was even brought in as a ringer by Grothendieck for EGA). While the other members obviously made very substantial contributions to the mathematics of Bourbaki, I think that it's undeniable that the heart and soul of the project was Dieudonné. | |
| Jan 27, 2011 at 22:12 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | @unknown: Dieudonné wrote the final draft of every single piece of work by Nicolas Bourbaki. Further, he wrote the document that provided the philosophical underpinnings of the project. Here is Nicolas Bourbaki's famous paper (written by Dieudonné) Architecture of Mathematics. math.lsa.umich.edu/~mduchin/UCD/111/readings/architecture.pdf (notice also the references to the papers of Cartan and Dieudonné). | |
| Jan 27, 2011 at 17:30 | comment | added | user9072 | While I know that that Dieudonne (sorry for the missing accent) was very important for Bourbaki, I beleive not to have come accross the assertion 'the number 1 personality behind Bourbaki' or something of that strength before. This is not meant as criticism, but driven by curiosity on the subject. Could you elaborate on this or give a pointer to a source backing up this claim. | |
| Jan 27, 2011 at 13:32 | history | answered | Harry Gindi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |