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kkylin on June 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nicolas Bourbaki: The greatest mathematician who n...

Exactly. I think the goal was to formalize and codify mathematics. They didn't publish any original papers.

QuesnayJr on June 5, 2020 [–]

They published a couple of original papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki#Articles

I assume they were lacunae in the literature that came up while writing the books, but Wikipedia doesn't explain.

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