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tomrodtoday at 2:24 AM1 replyview on HN

> was the point of math ever just because some humans enjoyed doing it?

Yes.

Friends and I often work on Putnam problems and this series:

The (Almost) Impossible Integrals, Sums, and Series by Cornel Ioan Vălean


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erutoday at 10:28 AM

You can enjoy math, but that was never the only reason people in general did math. (It was the only reason for some people, sure.)