Nicolas Bourbaki

Nicolas Bourbaki

male
mathematician, Association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki, rigour, 20th-century, set theory, Bourbaki group
Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting...
Jakob Steiner

Jakob Steiner

male, deceased (1863)
mathematician, Swiss, Geometer, geometry, journal, From Bern…rigour
Jakob Steiner (18 March, 1796 - April 1, 1863) was a Swiss mathematician. He was born in the village of Utzenstorf, Canton of Bern. At eighteen he...
Edouard Goursat

Edouard Goursat

male, deceased (1936)
mathematician, Jordan curve theorem, topological, L. E. J. Brouwer, Cours d'analyse mathématique, Edouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat…mathematical rigour
Edouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his "Cours d'analyse mathématique", which a...

George William Brandt

male
married, university of winnipeg, Citizen, National Film Board of Canada, visiting professor at Shizuoka University, held as an alien…judo brown belt - and intellectual rigour
George chose the music for his funeral, starting with the overture from Citizen Kane and concluding with Give a Little Whistle from Pinocchio, his...