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Number Theory is beautiful, but impractical for daily usage or programming. Who cares ?
by revskill 8y ago
Number Theory is beautiful, but impractical for daily usage or programming. Who cares ?
- dang 8y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zahreeley 8y agoBut who asked to do such wasteful work?
- Cyph0n 8y agoThat may be true now, but perhaps not in the future. Heck, mathematicians in general thought number theory was “useless” up until only around 40 years ago. Now we know that our world could not have developed this way without the creation of modern cryptography. I think number theory serves as a great example for why basic research is so important to humanity.
- heyjudy 8y agoWow. I can't believe having to explain curosity or that other people have uses for things that some people don't understand. Smh.
- zahreeley 8y agoYep I also don’t care. It’s a waste of time.
- throwawaymath 8y agoImpractical for daily usage? Surely you use TLS daily, in some fashion, do you not?