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09-28-2009, 12:35 PM
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I must take up opposition to your quip that pure mathematics is more useless than philosophy. I am reminded of a pure mathematician whose ambition was to devise a theorem that was completely and utterly useless. "But always some tiresome physicist would come along and find a use for it." He may or may not have been G. H. Hardy, nevertheless, this was an ambition he shared.
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