Why Do Mathematicians Study Number Theory
In his landmark publication, A Mathematician’s Apology, number theorist, Godfrey H. Hardy was unapologetic about the fact that number theory, unlike applied mathematics, had no real application to anything of use, stating: The “real” mathematics of the “real” mathematicians, the mathematics of Fermat and Euler and Gauss and Abel and Riemann, is almost wholly “useless,” …
