LOL, when I read just the first paragraph of your comment, I immediately thought of computer graphics.
There are other examples. I wouldn't be motivated to analyze some filter circuit's transfer function if it's not related to guitar somehow.
If you are someone who is primarily about Making Stuff, this will resonate.
I think some of the academics in math are not Make Stuff people; they can get motivated by the math itself. Or, well, maybe they are Make Stuff people, but what hey make is the math itself. Their application for something is, oh, I need that to prove this other thing in some structure I'm making.
I've experienced the Make Stuff motivation playing with just math. For instance, in high school, I independently came up with double and triple integration along multiple a, and used that to work out the volumes of common solids (easily verifiable to be right). I was thinking, I'm following this cool idea where we integrate along one variable, to get a formula which we integrate along another; will that work?
Now, that's probably a whole other conversation, given the propensity that "capitalism" or whatever one wants to call it is pretty much dedicated to you and I getting this wrong consistently, but hey.
There are other examples. I wouldn't be motivated to analyze some filter circuit's transfer function if it's not related to guitar somehow.
If you are someone who is primarily about Making Stuff, this will resonate.
I think some of the academics in math are not Make Stuff people; they can get motivated by the math itself. Or, well, maybe they are Make Stuff people, but what hey make is the math itself. Their application for something is, oh, I need that to prove this other thing in some structure I'm making.
I've experienced the Make Stuff motivation playing with just math. For instance, in high school, I independently came up with double and triple integration along multiple a, and used that to work out the volumes of common solids (easily verifiable to be right). I was thinking, I'm following this cool idea where we integrate along one variable, to get a formula which we integrate along another; will that work?