André Weil in a publication of Bourbaki.
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"The great mathematician of the future, as of the past, will flee the well-trodden path. It is by unexpected rapprochements which our imagination would not have known how to arrive at that he will solve, in giving them another twist, the great problems which we shall bequeath to him." |
Bourbaki: This elite semisecret group, founded in part by Weil, originated in France. They have worked together under the collective pseudonym of "Monsieur Nicholas Bourbaki" and have published a monumental compendium of abstract mathematics.
