For starters, I have no idea what the hell the things he is talking about have to do with "left-wing" and "right-wing". There is a real issue to discuss here but the author just seems obsessed with labelling things he doesn't like "right-wing".
Those are simply terms he produced, rather out of thin air, to describe the concepts he was aiming at describing. True, you may not like his choice of words. Personally, I'm not hyper-sensitive to the point it bothers me.
There is a real issue to discuss here but the author just seems obsessed with labelling things he doesn't like "right-wing".
On the contrary: it's the things that he LIKES, and that all mathematicians like (certainty) that he labels "right-wing."
He's just using words he chose because he couldn't think of any more descriptive words. Sheesh, don't take it so personally. There's no political agenda here. It's mathematics he's talking about, for God's sake.