I really enjoyed this article from Math With Bad Drawings: http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/02/24/why-do-we-pay-mathematicians/
Why Do We Pay Pure Mathematicians?
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Posted by John Quintanilla on May 1, 2015
https://meangreenmath.com/2015/05/01/why-do-we-pay-pure-mathematicians/
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