data point: i just read the beginning of hardy's Divergent Series and he takes potshots at other mathematicians for not being rigorous enough that i find hilarious and endearing might be just because modern mathematical writing is so dry in comparisonhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1175704450092212224 …
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at the very least it's clear that he has *read* the masters which almost nobody i know has done. it's very unfortunate that the masters write in languages like german, french, and latin which i am not educated-at-cambridge-in-the-late-19th-century enough to know
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also "invited confusion in weaker minds" is just amazing, nobody in contemporary mathematics writes like this (they probably shouldn't, but still)
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