Bourbaki

noun

Nicholas Bourbaki the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique

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Gambetta, Chanzy, Bourbaki, and Trochu were organising a desperate defence.
My Double Life
Sarah Bernhardt
Bourbaki may relieve Belfort, but in that corner of France what is he to do?
The Young Franc Tireurs
G. A. Henty
Bourbaki yelled and pulled at the oars with all his might, encouraging the others.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
Felix Speiser
He called out that Bourbaki was dead, and that we must come to the village.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
Felix Speiser
General Bourbaki had withdrawn from the Lisaine on the 18th.
The Franco-German War of 1870-71
Count Helmuth, von Moltke

Bourbaki

Examples from the Web for bourbaki

Historical Examples

Gambetta, Chanzy, Bourbaki, and Trochu were organising a desperate defence.

Bourbaki may relieve Belfort, but in that corner of France what is he to do?

Bourbaki yelled and pulled at the oars with all his might, encouraging the others.

He called out that Bourbaki was dead, and that we must come to the village.

General Bourbaki had withdrawn from the Lisaine on the 18th.