Rota's marvellous defence of lectures. "The person lecturing to us was logic incarnate" (on Alonzo Church)pic.twitter.com/3TbUP2ESxa
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Rota's book put in words what I learned leaving Bourbakiste snobbery for practical computation
I wonder if Bourbakiste snobbery was a product of the overall culture? I found Serre & Grothendieck's writing honest & direct
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their mediocre followers pushed abstraction at the expense of intuition and calculation
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"...deliberately abstaining from introducing any diagram in the book." Dieudonné
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