Mathematicians who never were
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Mathematicians who never were
zbMATH Open document ID: 1397.01021
author: Barbara Pieronkiewicz
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: s00283-017-9763-5
review text: Nicolas Bourbaki is a well-known name of a fictious mathematician (in fact, the pseudonym of a group of mathematicians), who nevertheless had a major influence on the 20th-century mathematics. The author of the present article documents that Bourbaki was by no means the only fictious author of publications in mathematics or physics. Other examples include E. S. Pondiczery, Hector Pétard, Boo Barkee, F. D. C. Willard, and Shalosh B. Ekhad. Each name is accompanied by a short story describing circumstances that led to the creation of the character.
reviewed by: Antonín Slavík
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
zbMATH DE Number: 6932666
zbMATH Keywords: fictious mathematicians
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2804110228
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Wikidata QID: Q129805712
DOI: 10.1007/S00283-017-9763-5
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6932666