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Employment Register, 716, 717, 718 Printed in the United States of America. Denver Preregistration and Housing, 719, 720 The Work of Bourbaki During the Last Thirty Years Jean Dieudonne The Birth of Bourbaki mathematics. Applied mathematics were never considered, due primarily to the lack of competence The history of mathematics shows that, after and lack of interest of the collaborators; for some active periods introducing new ideas or techniques, time they toyed with the idea of including probability the necessity is felt of welding the novelties into a theory and numerical analysis, but this also was soon well-organized whole, accessible to all mathematicians dropped. and giving more powerful means to help them solve This ambition was kindled by the strong desire their problems. The famous works of Euclid and to return to the tradition of universalism, which Pappus clearly belong to that category of treatises had marked French mathematics in the previous two for geometry and arithmetic; Euler performed the centuries, and of which H. Poincare had perhaps same task for the algebra and analysis of his time, as been the most outstanding representative; but after did Laplace for celestial mechanics and probability. his premature demise, followed by the bleeding to A large part of Cauchy's papers may be put in that death of the young generation in World War I, French class of didactic expositions for algebra, analysis and mathematics had lapsed into more and more narrow elasticity, enriched by many original views; after him, specialization and provincialism; for instance, nobody Frobenius, around 1880, similarly acted as a legislator in France at that time knew anything about class in the more restricted field of linear algebra; Jordan field theory or the Hilbert-Riesz spectral theory, nor did the same for classical analysis in his Cours (with the exception of Elie Cartan, then totally d'Analyse which remained a model for forty years, isolated) about group representations or Lie theory. and Hilbert in his two masterpieces, the Zahlbericht Bourbaki's refusal to consider mathematics as a series for algebraic numbers and the famous Grundlagen of isolated compartments was from the beginning one der Geometrie. of his fundamental tendencies. Around 1930, it had become obvious to most research mathematicians that it was imperative to take stock and put some order in the giant The Main Features strides which had occurred since 1890 in almost all parts of mathematics. Think of all the new Starting from scratch was meant literally, not, theories born during that period: the Cantor-Zermelo as in all treatises or monographs then in existence theory of sets, linear representations of groups and (even van der Waerden's Moderne Algebra), merely noncommutative algebra, class field theory, general starting from some "naive" theory of sets.