The Noble Pursuit Of Useless Knowledge

The Noble Pursuit Of Useless Knowledge
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The eternal struggle of the academic mind. Presented with noble pursuits that could benefit humanity—renewable energy, machine learning, medical breakthroughs—our researcher chooses... prime numbers. Because nothing says "I'm making a difference" like determining if 2,305,843,009,213,693,951 is divisible by anything other than 1 and itself. The beauty of pure mathematics is that it's completely useless until, suddenly, decades later, it's the foundation of all modern cryptography. But by then you'll be dead, so enjoy your chalk dust.

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