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by bee_rider 1523 days ago
> Henri Poincaré famously described them as "monsters" and called Weierstrass' work "an outrage against common sense", while Charles Hermite wrote that they were a "lamentable scourge".

I wonder if there is a really long compound German word for "an achievement whose greatness is best measured by the degree to which it disgusts experts in the field."