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Ah I see. As we evolve our understanding and toolset of certain fields in math, we may serendipitously happen upon approaches to solve existing problems or solv

• NotYourLawyer 3y ago
  As one example, number theory was considered pure math with no real-world applications for a long time. But then cryptography became a thing…
  • eru 3y ago
    Cryptography and coding theory. Cryptography and coding theory and compression are three sides of the same (generalised) coin. Claude Shannon dabbled in all of them. See eg https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Shan.pdf https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Shan.pdf