Students at Ecole Normale Superieure
Dec. 1934, first meeting in a cafe
Henri Cartan (left), Dieudonne (suited), Weil (right), Chevalley (middle bottom), Mandelbrojt
Structuralism, phonology (Roman Jakobson)
Levi-Strauss (“savage mind”),
The crescents (60s)
Not a swedish O.
“Zero: The story of a dangerous idea”
Nothing is better than eternal happiness; a ham sandwich is better than nothing; therefore, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness.
The set of all things that are better than eternal happiness is. The set {ham sandwich} is better than the set.
Henri Poincare.
Proofs! Lots of citations.
Borrowed by Knuth.
1951, Bourbaki Congress
Spat with AMS
Kurt Godel, religious – went mad.
Wittgenstein, Post-modernism, Deconstructionism