In the world I live in, results in one field that are actually important in other fields have a funny way of becoming known.

In the world I live in, inventors use and read about math, without the services of some personal conduit to the higher math gods.

Who determines whats important? The actual inventors, period.

The historical example shows that inventors don't have this problem. Perhaps you believe otherwise, that invention has proceeded sub-optimally to date and would have been faster if only mathematicians and their ideas had more status. I don't see evidence for this.

Actually I see evidence that our society tends to overrate the historical contributions of mathematicians to technical inventions.

Also, like I said in the other thread, it depends what one means by math.

LW-folk in particular (and perhaps lukeprog in extra particular), appear to have an especially strange mathematician fetish.