I disagree. 'Aesthetic' appearance in math is important in helping drive mathematical innovation and help new human beings derive pleasure from that wonderful

I disagree. 'Aesthetic' appearance in math is important in helping drive mathematical innovation and help new human beings derive pleasure from that wonderful field. Programming is kind of an applied mathematics where efficiency does matter because it's a tool, a means to an end. Not to say that people can't find aesthetics in programming, nor that they shouldn't, rather in math at least the pleasure of discovering a new way of doing/proving something is the end in of itself. It's pleasure for me to see another way to do or prove something; I can only imagine the feelings this teenager got from actually making a discovery.