FOM: Szolem Mandelbrojt and Bourbaki

[Colin McLarty]

A.R.D.Mathias wrote:

>So any information about the scope of Mandelbrojt's mathematical work, 
>and about his involvement with Bourbaki, and any psychological insights 
>into a possible estrangement from Bourbaki, would be most welcome. 

        There is just a word about this in James Gleick's CHAOS (pp.89-90).
In short he says Bourbaki was axiomatic and formal, and found geometry
"untrustworthy". He says, Mandelbrot "fled the Ecole Normale because of
Bourbaki and a few decades later he fled France for the same reason".