Just as notably, a lot of pure maths does eventually find a practical use.
Re body building, that is why, although I work out in various ways, I have no interest in body building. I want the body I live in to work as well as possible for as long as possible, but am content to let form follow function.
I certainly don’t mean to be a killjoy, I leave that to Insanity Wolf. But I do think that some forms of joy are less valuable than others, for the same reason that wireheading is the ultimately evil sort of joy.
Mathematical forms are a reduction of language in an attempt to make obvious through simplification and a more rigid form and grammar of the organization of ideas.
Just as notably, a lot of pure maths does eventually find a practical use.
Re body building, that is why, although I work out in various ways, I have no interest in body building. I want the body I live in to work as well as possible for as long as possible, but am content to let form follow function.
I certainly don’t mean to be a killjoy, I leave that to Insanity Wolf. But I do think that some forms of joy are less valuable than others, for the same reason that wireheading is the ultimately evil sort of joy.
Mathematical forms are a reduction of language in an attempt to make obvious through simplification and a more rigid form and grammar of the organization of ideas.