> What's the value in a closed-form expression that doesn't describe any real-world phenomenon? it keeps smart, driven, and potentially disruptive people busy

> What's the value in a closed-form expression that doesn't describe any real-world phenomenon? it keeps smart, driven, and potentially disruptive people busy chasing around closed forms while "real" power politics are kept firmly and rigorously under the control of incumbent powers. this may be a perspective too cynical, nonetheless I offer it as an answer to your question; still working on making this funny somehow as it hits close to why I couldn't make it through the academic-industrialized pipeline of institutional corporations (big universities) 'manufacturing' and 'selling' graduated professionals in the labor 'marketplace'