@cee-dee wrote:
People who achieved something with numbers were trying to DO something, they weren't just juggling numbers for the heck of it.
On what basis can you possibly claim that? Pythagoras for instance played with numbers, classified them as odd, even, perfect etc. It was out of this fascination with numbers that he proposed his famous theorem that in a right angle triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. a theorem that is the basis of most civil engineering calculations and design.
Newton was a great player with numbers as was Galileo, Einstein and Hawkins. It is out of this love of numbers many discoveries and practical uses have arisen.
