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Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI by vouaobrasil on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:23PM (#49185017)
Most modern pure math has no practical use whatsoever. It's amazing how few people understand this. Mathematics is a service department and maybe one in a hundred thousand results have any practical use. (Speaking as someone with a PhD and over a decade in pure math with several published papers...)

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