Association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki

Founding members

The Bourbaki group was formed in 1935. Its founding members were: Henri Cartan, Claude Chevalley, Jean Coulomb, Jean Delsarte, Jean Dieudonné, Charles Ehresmann, René de Possel, Szolem Mandelbrojt, André Weil. The Association des Collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki was created in 1952.

Elements of mathematics

The Elements of Mathematics are published by Springer-Verlag.

In 2023, publication of the English translation of the Chapter 8 of the Book Algebra. Contents (pdf)

In 2023, publication of a new volume of the Book Théories spectrales chapitres 3 à 5. Contents (pdf)

Séminaire Bourbaki du vendredi

November, 28 2025

The Friday's Bourbaki Seminar takes place at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP, Charles Hermite amphitheater), 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5^e. — [iCal] [Poster] [Abstract]

This seminar was created with a thought towards younger mathematicians. Colleagues present the mathematical context of some of the talks of the Sémianire Bourbaki in order to make them more accessible; they may also introduce some tools or further motivations.

14h00

Lucia Di Vizio — Transcendances fonctionnelles

15h30

Mario Schulz — Minimal surface exploration

17h00

Marco Robalo — Une introduction à l'homotopie chromatique

Séminaire Bourbaki

The Bourbaki seminar receives support from the CNRS managed by the IHP.

November, 29 2025

The Bourbaki Seminar takes place at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP, Charles Hermite amphitheater), 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5^e. — [iCal] [Poster] [Abstract]

10h00

Giada Franz — Minimal surfaces via equivariant eigenvalue optimization, after Karpukhin, Kusner, McGrath, and Stern

11h30

Serge Cantat — Degrés dynamiques

14h30

Christian Ausoni — Réfutation de la conjecture du télescope de Ravenel, d'après Burklund–Hahn–Levy–Schlank

16h00

Amador Martin-Pizarro — Model theory, differential algebra and functional transcendence, after Freitag, Jaoui, and Moosa

Leaflets

Leaflets with the texts prepared by the speakers are printed and distributed at each session.

Next session

The next session of the Seminars will be on Saturday January, 31 2026, and the preceding Friday.

The program for the academic year 2025-2026 is available here.

Program for the current academic year

For the list of talks scheduled in the current academic year, see here.

How to receive future announcements

Previous sessions

The links below give access to the abstracts and the video recordings of the most recent sessions.

Session of June 2025

Session of March 2025

Session of January 2025

Recorded talks of the séminaire Bourbaki

You can access here a list of previous recorded Bourbaki seminars. All the videos can also be found on the IHP platform.

Earlier Texts

List by authors' names of the Bourbaki Seminar lectures (number 1 to 1191).

Volume 2018/2019 of the Bourbaki Seminar (lectures 1151 to 1165) : Astérisque 422 (2020), Société mathématique de France.

Volume 2017/2018 of the Bourbaki Seminar (lectures 1136 to 1150) : Astérisque 414 (2019), Société mathématique de France.

Volumes of the Seminar since its creation.

Texts of the Bourbaki Seminar lectures until 2010  (on Numdam)

Poincaré Seminar

A physics seminar, the Poincaré Séminar, was created in 2001 with the Bourbaki Seminar as model.