[chewz]

I disagree. Math is very experimental - it is bottom up science where you first touch various details in the dark and generalization comes later.

I am with Arnold on that.

> Arnold was an outspoken critic of the trend towards high levels of abstraction in mathematics during the middle of the last century. He had very strong opinions on how this approach—which was most popularly implemented by the Bourbaki school in France—initially had a negative impact on French mathematical education, and then later on that of other countries as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold