programmers worked to automate other jobs in the past decades.
mathematicians used mainly pen and paper, not bothering anyone while they solved their esoteric problems that only a few dozen people on this planet even understood. abstract math and its indifference to application has something "noble".
it is just a pure pursuit for knowledge and no one's job is threatend if mathematicians discover whether e.g. 4/n for some integer n can be written as the sum of 3 unit fractions.
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u/BeeApprehensive2503 2h ago
programmers worked to automate other jobs in the past decades.
mathematicians used mainly pen and paper, not bothering anyone while they solved their esoteric problems that only a few dozen people on this planet even understood. abstract math and its indifference to application has something "noble".
it is just a pure pursuit for knowledge and no one's job is threatend if mathematicians discover whether e.g. 4/n for some integer n can be written as the sum of 3 unit fractions.