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> those mathematics are neither better nor worse than those that do not correspond to anything tangible.

A sweeping generalization. I certainly know professional mathematicians who disagree.

Also: many consider “inter-connectedness”, not “tangible” to be a sign that a topic is interesting. That is, it touches branches of mathematics aside from its own.

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For GH Hardy, the more useless the maths is, the better and more beautiful it is.
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