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 …
somehow the modern mathematician pipeline selects for people who are afraid of being loudly opinionated and i wish i knew why
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Halmos wrote about this (that, or I'm attributing my theory to him). Math is maybe the only area where you can truly prove something wrong (in theory) and if you have loud wrong opinions, people will know, like that fear about raising your hand in class.
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