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Can you give an example of something in mathematics that was invented, condemned as boring, and a decade or more later found to be useful?
Embarrassingly: no, not offhand. I have a general impression that this happens sometimes, rather than specific examples. Maybe some of the specialfunctionology used by Louis de Branges to prove the Bieberbach conjecture?