Heute ist meine Geburtstag!

Meh, I just think they could put their knowledge and their brains to better use. It's not like knowing the orbit of Ceres is beneficial to us at all yet.
 
It's not, but he also wrote the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, which influences all the stuff we know about number theory now, including the cryptography systems we use now, he developed the Gaussian distribution bell curve and did some work in electromagnetism.

And some equipment in medicine relies on that. There is some math in medicine too.
 
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