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The name of Bourbaki first appears in the published literature in this paper. As described by André Weil, the prank was designed to deflate a senior colleague’s ego, presumably by demonstrating the greater familiarity that Kosambi had with modern methods and the then current literature.
Published in the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, U.P. 1, 145–47 (1931). Reprinted with permission of the National Academy of Sciences, India. The journal is also known in the literature as the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Allahabad, India.
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D.D. Kosambi, Modern differential geometries. Ind. J. Phys. (to appear).
Topologicheskie Metody v Variatsionnykh Zadachakh. Math.-mech. Forschungsinstitut, Moskau, 1930, pp. 69–73. I am indebted to Dr. A. Weil for this important reference, and for permission to use his private reprint. I understand that Schnirelmann’s work is shortly to be published in German, and this will undoubtedly fill a considerable gap in the existing literature. It is also highly desirable that Bourbaki’s posthumous papers, at present lodged with the Leningrad Academy, should be published in full. Unofficial reports claim that Bourbaki was shot after the Minkhii Znak affair with other members of the ‘Russko-Angliskii Slovar.’
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Kosambi, D.D. (2016). On a Generalization of the Second Theorem of Bourbaki. In: Ramaswamy, R. (eds) D.D. Kosambi. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3676-4_6
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