Who was the real Nicolas Bourbaki?

Question

said to be an historic person not relly assosiated with math

Answer 1

Nicolas Bourbaki is the name of an imaginary mathematician under whom a group of French-speaking mathematicians formed in 1935 at instigation of André Weil began to write and to publish(edit) mathematical texts in the 1930s.

Charles Bourbaki was a french General during the 1870/71 war against the germans.

Sorry, but I only know the french links:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bou...

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Den...