"Chris" lives! 
  
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 Science Friday > Archives > 2006 > November > November 17, 2006, Hour Two:
 The Family that Couldn't Sleep / The Artist and the Mathematician
 Starting in the 1930s, Nicolas Bourbaki published dozens of papers, becoming a famous mathematician. There was just one problem: he didn't exist. Join Ira in this hour on Science Friday for a conversation with Amir Aczel about the genius mathematician who never existed. 
  
 
