Introduction

Nicolas Bourbaki

A chapter in Theory of Sets, 2004, pp 7-13 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Ever since the time of the Greeks, mathematics has involved proof; and it is even doubted by some whether proof, in the precise and rigorous sense which the Greeks gave to this word, is to be found outside mathematics. We may fairly say that this sense has not changed, because what constituted a proof for Euclid is still a proof for us; and in times when the concept has been in danger of oblivion, and consequently mathematics itself has been threatened, it is to the Greeks that men have turned again for models of proof. But this venerable bequest has been enlarged during the past hundred years by important acquisitions.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-59309-3_1

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