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    A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so.
    — John von Neumann
    From Address (1954) to Princeton Alumni, ‘The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society’, published in A.H. Taub (ed.), John von Neumann: Collected Works (1963), Vol. 6, 489.

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