So if "applied" means "useful," doesn't it follow that "pure" must mean... "useless"?
Why Do We Pay Pure Mathematicians?
Tag: the beauty of the phrase “for its own sake” as an alternative to “for no particular purpose”
Lover of math. Bad at drawing.
Lover of math. Bad at drawing.
So if "applied" means "useful," doesn't it follow that "pure" must mean... "useless"?