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This was what Bourbaki's Elements and Whitehead/Russell's Principia Mathematica were about. These books are admired and influential but very few people actually
by civilized 5y ago
This was what Bourbaki's Elements and Whitehead/Russell's Principia Mathematica were about. These books are admired and influential but very few people actually read them. As you might expect, they're too long. They're for giving a different perspective to people who have already achieved the highest levels of sophistication in math.