Is it really as bad as all of that? I like your choice of Darboux, rather than Euler or Gauss, because his name quickly points me in a particular direction. My experience is that familiarity with the tastes of individual mathematicians contributes to navigating that vast sea, mercifully suggesting hope that some charted course will not lead me astray. Darboux fashioned such-and-such tool and if I think about the problem for a while, I too may need such a tool. I suppose I can agree that like the Dewey decimal or LLC system, it is an awkward and archaic attempt at library science. OTOH, it seems to work well with my sensibility for building my personal memory castle. Certainly, however, if I read an uninterpretable sentence concluded with, "to which we apply a theorem of St. Anthony...", well then I would surely cry.
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