alt Hacker News> Well at the end of the day, the point of trying to understand the universe is to achieve specific goals leveraging that understanding.
Nope.
> Well at the end of the day, the point of trying to understand the universe is to achieve specific goals leveraging that understanding.
Nope.
Maybe not for you, but voters arent giving taxpayer money to mathematicians for any reason other than hopefully leveraging the understanding mathematicians create to materially advance society. The people who are just interested in understanding can do it as a hobby