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Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a genius!” they reply. Or ...

For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought. Antoine Chambert-Loir’s initiation into one of math’s oldest ...