love it when the nytimes journalist just runs with the nonsense about 20th century history spouted by the mathematicians he interviewshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/science/abel-prize-mathematics.html …
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Nobody expects you to write a complete history. I think it's reasonable to expect you to want to be correct about the parts of the history you do use.
What specifically was happening in the mid-20th century that Labourie was ignoring?
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The specific question you're objecting to appears to be this: "…most mathematicians in the middle of the 20th century did not think much of probability, which was at the bottom in the hierarchy of mathematics, below number theory, algebra and differential geometry."
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yes, probability was entirely mainstream in mid-century, embraced as an important method by prestigious folks in many places, including in Labourie's France. It was important in both pure and applied work (a distinction that was being actively re-negotiated in this period).
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