A professor of mine had an anecdote of meeting Serre and complaining to him about Bourbaki style and how hard it is for students.
Serre's reply was "But we never wrote those books for students! We wrote them for researchers to have a handy reference for all proofs of basic results."
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A professor of mine had an anecdote of meeting Serre and complaining to him about Bourbaki style and how hard it is for students.
Serre's reply was "But we never wrote those books for students! We wrote them for researchers to have a handy reference for all proofs of basic results."