There is similar anecdote in the documentary The man who saved geometry[1] about the life of the famous geometer Coxeder. The Bourbake school was in a response

There is similar anecdote in the documentary The man who saved geometry[1] about the life of the famous geometer Coxeder. The Bourbake school was in a response to the disaster of the Italian school of algebraic topology which put a lot of focus on rigor and formal proofs vs the hand waving Italians. They where good in reforging existing proofs but when it came to imagining new ideas it where the visual and experimental mathematicians who kept pushing the needle forward. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZEPzb3JY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZEPzb3JY0