Comment by jplusequalt
17 hours ago
>Humans only invest in solving problems that matter one way or another.
Fermat's Last Theorem was one of the most famous open problems in math for centuries, and it has no direct applicability to any tangible problems here in the physical world.
Oh some few. No right triangle with rational sides has area equal to a perfect square depends on N=4 for instance. And it can be used to form other theorems that are terribly actionable. Every elliptical curve over Q is modular, which has consequences throughout number theory.
But yes, none of those are very tangible, until applied to problem solutions that are tangible.