Or “I’m a mathematician. I try really hard to find things I can prove that have no practical application. But frustratingly people keep finding important practical applications for my work.”
> No one has yet found any war-like purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity or quantum mechanics, and it seems very unlikely that anybody will do so for many years. - G.H.Hardy, Jan 1940
> A few decades later, we stand waiting for nuclear bombs guided by GPS to be launched when the cryptographic auth certificate is verified. So it goes.
