Nicolas Bourbaki

If you don't know, it was a French collective movement in mathematics around a fictitious mathematician called Nicolas Bourbaki that attempted to eradicate any intuition, visualization, heuristics, or links with natural sciences from mathematics and to transform people into dull mechanical engines who can only evaluate fully rigorous and formally perfect proofs.

The Reference Frame 2010

"Nicolas Bourbaki" was a pseudonym, actually composed of a group of radical French mathematicians.

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Collaboration tools 2009

"Nicolas Bourbaki" was a pseudonym, actually composed of a group of radical French mathematicians.

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Last living founder of secret math society dies: generations 2008

"Nicolas Bourbaki" was a pseudonym, actually composed of a group of radical French mathematicians.

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: 2008

Nicolas Bourbaki, who never existed, is named in the Bourbaki-Witt theorem, used in computability theory and domain theory.

The Volokh Conspiracy » People’s Names in Computing 2009

Emmy Noether, B.L. van der Waerden, Nicolas Bourbaki, and others in the twentieth century.

Dedekind's Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics Reck, Erich 2008

Nicolas Bourbaki (pseudonym assumed by a group of mathematicians) published the first of a long series of expository works on modern mathematics.

1930 2001

Nicolas Bourbaki movement was one of the most counterproductive fads in the history of exact sciences.

The Reference Frame 2010

Each also had a strong influence on later developments ” Dedekind's by shaping the approaches to modern algebra (field theory, ring theory, group theory, etc.) of Hilbert, Emmy Noether, B.L. van der Waerden, Nicolas Bourbaki, and others (Alten et al. 2003, Corry 2004, McLarty 2006);

Dedekind's Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics Reck, Erich 2008