> Henri Poincaré famously described them as "monsters" and called Weierstrass' work "an outrage against common sense", while Charles Hermite wrote that they were a "lamentable scourge".
I wonder if there is a really long compound German word for "an achievement whose greatness is best measured by the degree to which it disgusts experts in the field."
Not a bad description of the history of analysis. Turns out function spaces are absolutely full of gross things that don't quite fit nicely into your theory.
