Mathematicians who never were

DOI10.1007/S00283-017-9763-5MaRDI QIDQ1670964zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Barbara Pieronkiewicz

Publication date 6 September 2018

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00283-017-9763-5

zbMATH Keywords

fictious mathematicians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

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.

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