Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective
pseudonym under which a group of (mainly
French) 20th-century
mathematicians, with the aim of reformulating
mathematics on an extremely abstract and formal but self-contained basis, wrote a series of books beginning in 1935. With the goal of grounding all of mathematics on
set theory, the group strove for
rigour and generality. Their work led to the discovery of several concepts and terminologies still used, and influenced modern branches of mathematics.