Person: Mandelbrojt, Szolem
Szolem Mandelbrojt was a Polish-born French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was an early Bourbakist and was the uncle of Benoit Mandelbrot.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- Others who strongly influenced Mandelbrojt after he arrived in Paris were Édouard Goursat, Henri Lebesgue, Paul Montel, and Émile Picard.
- Mandelbrojt was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship which enabled him to spend 1924-26 in the United States.
- Returning to France, Mandelbrojt was appointed Maître de Conférences at the University of Lille during 1928-29.
- Mandelbrojt made very considerable contributions to Bourbaki in its initial stages but later dropped out.
- Mandelbrojt published an important book Séries de Fourier et classes quasi-analytiques de fonctions Ⓣ(Fourier series and quasi-analytic classes of functions) in 1935.
- In 1969 Mandelbrojt published Séries de Dirichlet.
- Mandelbrojt retired from the Collège de France in 1972.
Born 10 January 1899, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland). Died 23 September 1983, Paris, France.
View full biography at MacTutor
Tags relevant for this person:
Analysis, Bourbaki, Geometry, Origin Poland
Thank you to the contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0! 
- Github:
-
- non-Github:
- @J-J-O'Connor
- @E-F-Robertson
References
Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:
- O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
