The answer to both is quite possibly, but we don't know. History has seen many mathematical curiosities gaining important practical applications, sometimes hund

The answer to both is quite possibly, but we don't know. History has seen many mathematical curiosities gaining important practical applications, sometimes hundreds of years later. Indeed, much of computer science is based upon mathematics which was at one time impractical. A good example is strong encryption, the foundations for which were built long before we had machines that were able to implement it.