Wang Qi said in a daze, "Who would have thought... that even I would develop such a severe obstruction of understanding in ordinary times... Really, one cannot relax for even a moment..."
That was what Wang Qi said.
How should one put it...
In Earth's mathematical history, the war between formalism and intuitionism had indeed been fought brutally.
But after it ended, the story was no longer quite so widely celebrated.
For a long stretch afterward, the grand histories of mathematics wrote at length about the Bourbaki school, about Pope Grothendieck, who commanded half of mathematics, and about the Langlands program.
As for formalism and intuitionism... more precisely, neo-formalism and intuitionism, there were still people working on them.
But in the end, they had become marginal, and thus no longer shone so brightly in history.
Hmm, how should it be described...
Among historians, there were always more who studied Qing history than Southern Ming history, weren't there?
No matter how the Ming Dynasty had "the Son of Heaven guarding the gates of the realm, the sovereign dying for the altars of state," the Southern Ming had merely been a salted fish that had lost its ancestors' inheritance, not even qualified to contend for the throne.
When history enthusiasts reached Chongzhen, they generally stopped there. How many would specifically study that salted fish known as the Southern Ming?
That was roughly the idea.
To be honest, the descendants of intuitionism and formalism had not been without achievements later on.
For instance, later recursion theory could be considered a typical achievement of the School of Separation.
But whether it was recursion theory, with its obvious School of Separation characteristics, or type theory, with its obvious School of Separation characteristics, they shared one common trait—they were part of computer science.
Or rather, they