Timeline for Does mathematical fecundity ever deviate from its applicability?
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| Apr 23, 2011 at 4:46 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | Fecundity and applicability will be correlated (though perhaps not locally in time, as the relevance of G. Hardy's métier to modern cryptography amply illustrates) for a simple reason. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail: and on the other hand, when you have a nail, you look for a hammer. | |
| Apr 23, 2011 at 2:59 | comment | added | Aaron Meyerowitz | The theory of conic sections was developed in ancient Greece without regard to applications and indeed it would have been considered bad taste to consider applications (or so I've heard it said.) There may have been some uses for duplicating the cube, but certainly the great applications to gravitational motion were undreamed of. | |
| Apr 23, 2011 at 1:44 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 23, 2011 at 1:30 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | You may be interested in the following talk by Tim Gowers, on "The importance of mathematics": youtube.com/watch?v=BsIJN4YMZZo In other news, congratulations on your two books just published! | |
| Apr 23, 2011 at 1:14 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | I just noticed I used a half-dozen words indicative of Spring! :-) | |
| Apr 23, 2011 at 1:08 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Algebraic geometry developed for a long time before its connentions with statistical problems arising in biology appeared. | |
| Apr 23, 2011 at 1:06 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |