Maths always used to be an entertainment for aristocrats and philosophers. Only in very few exceptional times in history it was been used for something else, b

Maths always used to be an entertainment for aristocrats and philosophers. Only in very few exceptional times in history it was been used for something else, being the largest exceptions the industrial and scientific revolution, and these usually did not require breakthroughs: just apply existing knowledge. It’s never been a young person game.