Comment by WarmWash
4 hours ago
These math problems don't exist in a vacuum. It's not like mathematicians are doing mathematics just for the funsies.
Calling it a publicity stunt is an interesting way of framing ground breaking discoveries. The beneficiaries down stream of these discoveries could not care less how they were found.
> It's not like mathematicians are doing mathematics just for the funsies.
But they do. Most of higher math has no practical applications and is just a mental playground, philosophy constrained by formal logic and a set of axioms.
Hope is these capabilities will somehow translate to something more practical like physics, chemistry or biology.