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freehorsetoday at 9:24 AM1 replyview on HN

Applications do not care about 99.999% of theoretical math production anyway. And especially most of the big results in theoretical math nowadays are really inconsequential in applications.


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erutoday at 9:48 AM

Applications don't care about Navier Stokes, yes. But they care about eg proving crytographics secure, or proving that your algorithm doesn't blow up under adversarial input.