There have been a number of Scientific discoveries that seemed to be purely scientific curiosities that later turned out to be incredibly useful. Hertz famously commented about the discovery of radio waves: “I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.”
Are there examples like this in math as well? What is the most interesting “pure math” discovery that proved to be useful in solving a real-world problem?
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I’d like to read up on this if you have sources
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Are you talking about the input-output thing? It assumes each sector produces exactly one thing, and is agnostic of growth, change and multiple non-equal possibilities existing. I’m skeptical.
It’s not really covered up, either.
That’s pretty interesting. Do you happen to have any introductory material to that topic?
I mean, it might even have applications outside of running a techno-communist nation state. For example, for designing economic simulation game mechanics.
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There’s no such thing as a Nobel Prize in economics. Economists got salty about this and came up with the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and rely on the media shortening it to something that gets confused with real Nobel Prizes.
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I mean, it’s endorsed by the same people. He has a page on their website and everything.
The same site says things like:
which pretty clearly makes a distinction between the Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Yeah, you’re not wrong about the history. It just still seems like it counts.
It’s funny that you’re saying this is “actively suppressed” while not naming this field or providing links for further readings.
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The phrase “donut mathematics” was not in your earlier comment. You literally did not name it.
Maybe they’re scared that project Cybersyn would actually work