Supporters of the "modified Platonic view" of mathematics like to point out that, over the centuries, mathematicians have produced {or "discovered"} numerous objects of pure mathematics with absolutely no application in mind. Decades later, these mathematical constructs and models were found to provide solutions to problems in physics. Penrose tilings and non-Euclidean geometries are beautiful testimonies to this process of mathematics unexpectedly feeding into physics, but there are many more."
( Mario Livio )
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