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by lanstin 5 days ago
The architecture of our modern technological society lies on top of pure maths. One cannot say “resolving the physicality of the Navier-Stokes equation” will lead to x, y or Zed human improvements, but for hundreds of years it has. It is like Bach making his fugues for beauty and pleasure but occasionally you get chip technology or mathematical ecology or GPS falling out of it.