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by roi 2054 days ago
Benoit Mandelbrot often complained about this style of mathematics, and how its dominance in France forced him to go to the US. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyuXKOMU5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9k1o2RmqVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRId9PNd6A (his uncle, Szolem Mandelbrojt was a founding member of Bourbaki).