Pseudonymous mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki and his lesser-known counterpart E.S. Pondiczery, devised respectively in France and in Princeton in the mid-1930s, together index a pivotal moment in the history of modern mathematics, marked by international infrastructures and institutions that depended on mathematicians’ willingness to play along with mediated personifications. By pushing these norms and practices of personification to their farcical limits, Bourbaki’s and Pondiczery’s impersonators underscored the consensual social foundations of legitimate participation in a scientific community and the symmetric fictional character of both fraud and integrity in scientific authorship. To understand authorial identity and legitimacy, individual authors’ conduct and practices matter less than the collective interpersonal relations of authorial assertion and authentication that take place within disciplinary institutions.

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二十世纪中叶数学中的拟人化和拟人化

1930 年代中期分别在法国和普林斯顿设计的化名数学家 Nicolas Bourbaki 和他鲜为人知的同行 ES Pondiczery 共同标志着现代数学史上的一个关键时刻，其标志是依赖于数学家意愿的国际基础设施和机构与中介拟人一起玩。通过将这些拟人化的规范和实践推向可笑的极限，布尔巴基和庞迪策里的模仿者强调了合法参与科学界的共识社会基础以及科学作者中欺诈和诚信的对称虚构特征。要了解作者身份和合法性，