And same goes for Terence Tao as he was unsatisfied with the low degree of collaboration between mathematicians and stepped up saying (politely) :"this sh-t has to stop"
Of course the rampant ego which is in the field prevents people from rallying around leaders like that or even arriving indipendently to the same conclusion because all these people see is the di-k measuring contest or slapping their name on a theorem.
You speak about practicality of math, what's more practical than turning Mobile, AL into a Cambridge or a Zurich.
If people in math cared about explaining their thoughts the way philosophers and rational thinkers do, then it could be possible.
