[chermi]

Most mathematicians don't take pride in their results having no applications. That's just not true. Maybe some quirky pure logicians or something. But otherwise 90%+* of mathematicians I know would be at least satisfied if not thrilled for their work to be used by others.

*Completely made up statistic.

[limflick]

I've had the opposite experience with all the math nerds that I know. End of the day it's all anecdotal ig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology