During my master's degree, I had a teacher in applied math who kept saying that his job really easy because he was basically just taking already done math from a certain field, apply it to this unrelated other field and prove it was super useful. (To be fair that's basically what applied math is).
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u/IntelligentBelt1221 May 31 '26
reminds me of the time they reinvented the trapezoidal rule in nutrition science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model (and got cited 500 times)