ABSTRACT
Jean Dieudonné is one of the more prominent members of the Bourbakigroup1, a highly influential collection of French mathematicians whostress axiomatics and rigour in the development and presentation of mathematics. In the preface to his Foundations of Modern Analysis (1969), Dieudonné urges a ‘strict adherence to axiomatic methods, with no appeal whatsoever to “geometric intuition”, at least in the formal proofs: a necessity which we have emphasized by deliberately abstaining from introducing any diagram in the book’ (1969: ix Preface, my italics).
