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I ask thos question with genuine curiosity- can someone help me understand why this is important? I have the same question about a lot of esoteric fields on Mat

I ask thos question with genuine curiosity- can someone help me understand why this is important? I have the same question about a lot of esoteric fields on Math - do we study them just because of curiosity and seeing how far we can follow a pattern? Or is there actual value to for example knowing what Mersenne primes are, etc? I guess my question is - is this applied in any way? EDIT: I see from responses my comment created the impression that I conflate "purely intellectual" and "not valuable." That was not my intention, simply asking whether this has applications or not.

Ansil849 5y ago
The only things "important" are having basic food to eat and a place to sleep. Everything else in life is "curiosity". It is incredibly annoying when the question of importance is brought up, typically when things like pure mathematics, or art, or humanities are being discussed. Why does no one ask, "can someone explain what's important about working for a FAANG company, what do they produce that's of any importance*.
- kibwen 5y ago
  > Why does no one ask, "can someone explain what's important about working for a FAANG company, what do they produce that's of any importance. No, no, we ask that all the time. :P
villasv 5y ago
> can someone help me understand why this is important Because it was hard > is this applied in any way Not sure, but this is a vacuous way to define what is important