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The punch line is that the equations he worked out ended up being useful for his Nobel Prize winning work. So it ended up being useful even if that wasn't the goal.

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My favourite part of that story is when he shows the maths to one of the other professors they can't understand why he is "wasting time" on it.

And then he goes on to win the Nobel prize because of it..

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