Full Idea
From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics appears as a storehouse of abstract forms - the mathematical structures.
Gist of Idea
From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics is a storehouse of abstract structures
Source
Nicholas Bourbaki (The Architecture of Mathematics [1950], 221-32), quoted by Fraser MacBride - Review of Chihara's 'Structural Acc of Maths' p.79
Book Reference
-: 'Bulletin of Symbolic Logic' [-], p.79
A Reaction
This seems to be the culmination of the structuralist view that developed from Dedekind and Hilbert, and was further developed by philosophers in the 1990s.