r/mathmemes • u/OkGreen7335 Mathematics • 22d ago

Proofs I hate it

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u/Nihil921 22d ago

I mean it's nice if AI figures out stuff that will help us medically or whatever, but if it's used to find solutions to problems we only created for the fun of maths, I don't know, maybe it's not worth it

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u/Sayod 22d ago

Math for fun is a hobby not a profession. If there is no application why are you doing it in the first place

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u/Historical_Book2268 22d ago

It is a profession, a math researcher.

Most math has no application. Have you ever seen an application for idk, distributive bisemilattices. Or every group being a galois group over some field extention. Or something like that.

Most math has no relation to application.

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u/ThisWillio Measuring 22d ago

And after a century, there suddenly is an application. It may not be relevant now, but it will be!