Bourbaki and the HistorT of Mathematics

Bourbaki와 수학사

  • Lee Seung On (Department of Mathematics, Chungbuk National Univ.) ;
  • Kim Tae-Soo (Department of Mathematics, Chungbuk National Univ.)
  • Published : 2005.08.01

Abstract

Before the First World War, French mathematicians were leading mathematical community in the world but after the war, there was a vacuum compared with Germany and England. So it was necessary to make everything new in France. Young mathematicians from Ecole Normale Superieur came together to form the Bourbaki group. Bourbaki advanced the view that mathematics is a science dealing with structures, and that it attains its results through a systematic application of the modern axiomatic method. French culture movements, especially structuralism and potential literature, including the Bourbakist endeavor, emerged together, each strengthening the public appeal of the others through constant interaction. In this paper, we investigate Bourbaki's role and their achievements in the twentieth century mathematics, and the decline of Bourbaki.

일차대전 전의 프랑스 수학사는 괄목할 만 하였으나 일차대전 후 프랑스는 독일과 영국에 비하여 완전히 진공 상태였다. 이에 젊은 프랑스 수학자들은 독일로부터 크게 자극을 받아 Bourbaki학파를 생성하고 때마침 사회적으로나 정치적으로 생성된 구조주의(structuralism)와 발맞추어 수학의 구조적 접근을 시도하였다. 우리는 Bourbaki의 생성 과정과 발전 단계를 알아보고 그 구성원들과 그들이 심혈을 기울여 집필한 책들, 그리고 업적에 대하여 조사한 후 Bourbaki학파의 쇠퇴 과정을 살펴 본다.

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