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honestly, why not do something good and apply yourself to a cause that you believe in instead of doing something you intently don't believe in. It honestly reads like something out of badly written marxist satire of bourgeoisie.
Great read! The bit that I found the most curious is actually listed on Wikipedia (this was written in 1940): > "No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years."
Great read! The bit that I found the most curious is actually listed on Wikipedia (this was written in 1940): > "No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years."
> The GPS project was started by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1973 [1]
Not sure if this surprising, since he was a vocal pure mathematician. But since I don't agree (and it sometimes looks like the pure mathematicians look down on the applied), I wonder whether there are some texts from famous applied mathematicians defending their branch.
> On the other hand, Hardy denigrates much of the applied mathematics as either being "trivial", "ugly", or "dull", and contrasts it with "real mathematics", which is how he ranks the higher, pure mathematics. Not sure if this surprising, since he was a vocal pure mathematician. But since I don't agree (and it sometimes looks like the pure mathematicians look down on the applied), I wonder whether there are some text…
Great read! The bit that I found the most curious is actually listed on Wikipedia (this was written in 1940): > "No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years."
What about elliptic curve cryptography?
Great read! The bit that I found the most curious is actually listed on Wikipedia (this was written in 1940): > "No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years."
Relativity, particularly the mass-energy equivalence principle of special relativity, lead to the thinking that lead to The Bomb less than five years later.
Einstein’s politics had more to do with the bomb than his physics.
> On the other hand, Hardy denigrates much of the applied mathematics as either being "trivial", "ugly", or "dull", and contrasts it with "real mathematics", which is how he ranks the higher, pure mathematics. Not sure if this surprising, since he was a vocal pure mathematician. But since I don't agree (and it sometimes looks like the pure mathematicians look down on the applied), I wonder whether there are some text…
History's greatest example of irony is that Hardy's field of interest ended up being one of the most widely cited examples of the practical applications of abstract mathematics.
Great read! The bit that I found the most curious is actually listed on Wikipedia (this was written in 1940): > "No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years."
What about elliptic curve cryptography?