Rigorous Proofwork meant something entirely different to the eighteenth century than it means to us in the post-Hilbert world. When physics and mathematics were more closely married, you could get away with a lot of iffy, and often fundamentlaly incorrect, mathematical reasoning if it "worked" to explain some physical phenomenon. Just look at Fourier.

No, seriously, look at him.

That notwithstanding, "For Rigorous Proofwork" is an awesome battle cry for a mathematician of any century, I figured, so there it is.

- DvL

It is good, every now and again, to take a break from the usual Frederick babble parade and watch some competent characters take care of business.