“La Tribu” (“The Tribe”) was the internal Journal of the Bourbaki group between 1940 and 1977.
It’s main purpose was to record the editorial decisions made during the Bourbaki congresses, but it always started out with a humorous account of some of the events during their meeting, including a list of all people and things attending it.s
Some time ago, I’ve used the then available issues of “La Tribu” to locate the Hotels, Abbeys, Spas etc. where the Bourbaki congresses took place between 1940 and 1960. Here are some links:
In one of these post I pleaded:
“Dear Collaborators of Nicolas Bourbaki, please make all Bourbaki material (Diktat, La Tribu, versions) publicly available, certainly those documents older than 50 years.”
Last time I checked the Bourbaki Archives I was delighted that by now they have released all issues of “La Tribu” until 1970!
A few more places for me to locate, and a lot more fun intros to read.
I definitely do plan to do something with all the issues of “La Tribu”, either here, or in a different format, perhaps on YouTube.
For this reason I’ve renamed my ‘channel’ (containing just one clip on Mochizuki made 11 years ago) to “TheBourbakiTribe” (once again, note “La Tribu”=”The Tribe”).
I’m still trying to find a clip-format I feel comfortable with, so right now I’m testing things out, continuing my series of posts on Bourbaki and the 21 pilots storyline of Trench/Dema/Clancy.
In order to separate those from plain Bourbaki-history posts, I’ll prepend their title with their logo |-/ (yep, meaning ‘it doesn’t follow from this’, but let’s keep that to ourselves). Here’s a first attempt:
It’s about one of their Photoshop mysteries. Two extra people were shopped in the classic Dieulefit/Beauvallon 1938 photograph, and one of them, ‘bearded man’, remained elusive. Here’s my best guess of the edited picture based on recent suggestions/finds:
Bearded man was created from the head of Jacques Hadamard, and the body of Alexander Grothendieck. In the clip I try to find out why this might make sense, in the |-/ multiverse.
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