Re: [HM] Szolem Mandelbrojt and Bourbaki

Martin Zerner (zerner@math.unice.fr)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 18:52:30 +0100

>Dear professor Mathias,
>
>I already replied to an even milder affirmation. It is NOT true that S.
>Mandelbrojt was kept out. In fact, it is quite the opposite: he had
>a chair at CdeF - which he resumed after WW2 - and was influential in
>getting non Bourbakis elected.
>
>What is more open to discussion is whether his own influence might have
>been curtailed by Bourbaki members.
>
>
>Liliane Beaulieu

This fits my recollections of the fifties.

But is it true that Mandelbrojt was one of the founders of Bourbaki and
later stepped out, as Rene de Possel did?

Martin Zerner