Comment by Ar-Curunir
10 hours ago
Even if pure math is useless, that’s still okay. We do plenty of things that are useless. Not everything has to have a use.
10 hours ago
Even if pure math is useless, that’s still okay. We do plenty of things that are useless. Not everything has to have a use.
I’m not sure I agree. Pure math is not useless because a lot of math is very useful. But we don’t know ahead of time what is going to be useless vs. useful. We need to do all of it and then sort it out later.
If we knew that it was all going to be useless, however, then it’s a hobby for someone, not something we should be paying people to do. Sure, if you enjoy doing something useless, knock yourself out… but on your own dime.