>>14283353>What branch of mathematics do you find the most useful/useless?Useful for what? You can't say that something is useless, you can say you dont know the applications or that nobody the application today and even then that applications might not be relevant to you now. Someone somewhere either already cares or might care in the future. Thats how things are.
>>14295306You can't think of it, it doesn't mean that such problems don't exist. Topological data analysis is a thing.
Outside of data analysis - if you knew a thing about topology, you would know that it is relevant to physics. You don't even know to talk about crazy condensed matter research into topological insulators which are classified by fucking K-theory, you can just look at the Aharanov Bohm effect. How useful is that? God knows, but that is real world physics research. It might help build quantum computers, it might not do anything, it might do something 1000 years from now on that we can't imagine. Science doesnt have very predictable return on investment. Thankfully mathematics itself is very cheap. It runs on donuts and coffee pretty much.
