True. Pure Math does seem different. It's effects are felt way down the line and it's more about training people to think a certain way(what 3b1b creator pointed to). And I think when it's discussed they are talking about an entire field changing— material science, theoretical physics is still taught post bell.labs in unis — but I have to comceded I dunno if there is any part of pure Math that exists without the system of incentives, grant structures going into Universities that teach math...

> Pure Math does seem different.

Claude Shannon's paper that kicked off the entire field of information theory was published in the Bell System Technical Journal.

I share the thread's concern over this much centralization of power, but it is worth mentioning that private-sector pure research isn't exactly new. In fact it feels like we had a lot more of it in the 1900s, maybe it's good that it's at least getting revived a bit.