RIP Bill Thurston! Thank you for sharing! His mini-essay made a lot of sense. I think he nailed it in the beginning by saying that the world collectively benef

RIP Bill Thurston! Thank you for sharing! His mini-essay made a lot of sense. I think he nailed it in the beginning by saying that the world collectively benefits from Mathematics as a whole. Or rather, benefits are a "side effect" of people's Mathematical achievements.