Comment by jstanley
19 hours ago
Applications for pure mathematics can't necessarily be known until the underlying mathematics is solved.
Just because we can't imagine applications today doesn't mean there won't be applications in the future which depend on discoveries that are made today.
Well, read the linked comment. The possible future applications of useless science can't be known either. I still argue that it has intrinsic value apart from that, unlike pure mathematics.
There are many cases where pure mathematics became useful later.
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/dfw3by/is_there_any_e...
So what? There are probably also many cases where seemingly useless science became useful later.
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