MB:Well, and and, you know, so I, as I said, I'm more interested in the theory side, the the pure side. Yeah. But the funny thing about funny thing about math is that things that you would think are not applied at all. Yeah, sooner or later. Somebody's going to find an application for them. Oh, really? So yeah, for instance, there's a famous mathematician named named Hardy lived in the early 1900s, And he studied a number theory, which is, you know, studying prime numbers and factorization of numbers. And you would think that's nothing to do with the real world, you would think, but in the 70s, people started thinking about the internet and they started thinking about how can we encrypt in information so that you can send your credit card information and hackers won't be able to read it. But your bank will be able to read it. And, and the way that they came up to protect that information, has everything to do with prime numbers and factoring. And so even though people were working in the early 1900s on this stuff, and they didn't think you'd ever have application, you know, fast forward a couple decades, and suddenly somebody did find an application for it. And it's an incredibly important the application for it.

RK: Wow that is kinda crazy

MB: Its hard to predict.predict? Yeah. I would be very surprised if somebody found an application for what I'm doing in the next 100 years. But, but if they did, you know, then it would still be worth it.

RK: I never thought of like math being this kind of, like, historical application in a way like it's like use later on, or like, has future impact in a different kind of way? Yeah, that is, I mean, how do people like see like, like, old theories, and like, maybe we can use this for this thing? Oh, I like it's, it's hard to wrap my head around how like, mathematicians can work and like, I'm like, oh, Let's Encrypt with prime numbers. You know?