About your difficulty to see the application of theoretical math, often times even the people developing the theories have no clue. GH Hardy, one of the most prominent figures of Number Theory in the 20th century, was famously proud of its pureness and lack of applicability in the outside world. He was a strong pacifist living in the beginning of WWII, so he was particularly proud that it would have no military application whatsoever.
Fast forward 80 years, and Number Theory is being used literally billions of times per second in our world: it is the basis ... (read more)
About your difficulty to see the application of theoretical math, often times even the people developing the theories have no clue. GH Hardy, one of the most prominent figures of Number Theory in the 20th century, was famously proud of its pureness and lack of applicability in the outside world. He was a strong pacifist living in the beginning of WWII, so he was particularly proud that it would have no military application whatsoever.
Fast forward 80 years, and Number Theory is being used literally billions of times per second in our world: it is the basis ... (read more)