<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2018, at 10:11 AM, Ross Moore <<a href="mailto:ross.moore@mq.edu.au" class="">ross.moore@mq.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class="">Texts that introduce new concepts by means of a definition, without previous motivating examples, are notoriously difficult to learn from. That's why Bourbaki never really gained much traction — if you are not already an expert, just forget it.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I'd put it in the same league as Russel and Whitehead's Principia in terms of pedagogic value for introductory students.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The main place where Bourbaki came into my life was in grad school, where a segment of Bourbaki was used in my French language comp. IT was pretty easy to translate, given how little French I really knew. I've never had a need to look at Bourbaki ever since.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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