alt Hacker NewsPlenty of mathematics was practically useless for long periods of time, waiting for us to invent computers, cryptography, error correcting codes, etc.
It's extremely hard to know what mathematics may be useful in the future or not.
Plenty of mathematics was practically useless for long periods of time, waiting for us to invent computers, cryptography, error correcting codes, etc.
It's extremely hard to know what mathematics may be useful in the future or not.
It's hard to know for certain, but that doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and say anything goes. We can still say that some things are more likely to be useful than others.