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by hiddencost 398 days ago
Maybe a little less with the ad hominems? The OP is providing an accurate description of an extremely immature field.
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Many mathematicians are (rightly, IMO) allergic to assertions that certain branches are not useful (explicit in OP) and especially so if they are dismissive of attempts to understand complicated real world phenomema (implicit in OP, if you ask me).