Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki

Lillian Pierce, the Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Professor of Mathematics, was quoted in a Quanta Magazine article about Nicolas Bourbaki, an anonymous society that has written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought for almost a century. Pierce describes meeting the group and explains that their anonymity is in a “spirit of fun." “There is no rigor to the secrecy,” she said.

Read the article at Quanta.