" This writer influenced writers like Serge Lang by taking Hilbert's axiomatic method to extremes, and operating at the absolute highest level of (*) abstraction possible, which makes his books almost impossible to read.
Amir Aczel wrote a book claiming that this writer was a key influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and structuralism in general. The second volume of this writer's most famous book derived much of its presentation from Bartel van der Waerden. The first volume of that work by this author begins by grounding all theories in terms of relations of assemblies of signs, and ends with a category-theory-like description of mappings between general "structures." This writer influenced writers like Serge Lang by taking Hilbert's axiomatic method to extremes, and operating at the absolute highest level of (*) abstraction possible, which makes his books almost impossible to read. For 10 points, name this twentieth-century French mathematician, who was very heavily influenced by the ideas of André Weil and Jean Dieudonné, since he was actually a collective pseudonym.
Amir Aczel wrote a book claiming that this writer was a key influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and structuralism in general.
Nicolas Bourbaki 