FOM: Szolem Mandelbrojt and Bourbaki

[Reuben Hersh]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Colin McLarty wrote:

> 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".
> 
> 
> 
	Why not ask Mandelbrot's nephew Benoit?