A beautiful quote fom Edward Titchmarsh:[ref]Ciro Santilli believes that it is perhaps for this reason that simple to state but hard to prove theorems are so attractive.
It can be of no practical use to know that pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
This quote was brought to Ciro Santilli's attention at: www.quantamagazine.org/recounting-the-history-of-maths-transcendental-numbers-20230627/