The true legacy of these books, however, is not their content but their style. Bourbaki prioritized abstraction over all else, eschewing concrete examples and calculations in favor of only the most general statements. They presented each proof as a series of logical deductions, usually without reference to any underlying intuition or rationale. One of Bourbaki’s…

This article was originally published in UCSB’s The Current. Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music born of the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would likely have been lost to landfills and faded from memory. Fans and historians have credited obsessive record collectors for preserving much of that…

CHICAGO – A state legislative oversight committee on Friday allowed the Illinois Department of Corrections to formally adopt permanent rules allowing it to scan and digitize detainees’ mail, in a blow to prison reform advocates. The rule was originally introduced under pressure from Republican lawmakers and the IDOC labor union after a series of substance…