> It also correlates with the pragmatic engineering of US history (electricity comes to mind). I got my math degree in California (at Cal) and the approach was

> It also correlates with the pragmatic engineering of US history (electricity comes to mind). I got my math degree in California (at Cal) and the approach was a lot closer to what you describe French books as. Many of my courses were just a semester-long discussion of proof after proof, with breaks for exams that were more proofs.