On Friday, July 24, 2015 at 2:59:41 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris : > > > Fortunately, we don't need to completely understand it. New Horizons > > reached Pluto right on time after a decade of flight that involved > > taking a left turn at Jupiter... we can predict exactly what angle to > > fire the rockets at in order to get where we want to go, even without > > knowing how that gravity yank works. > > > > Practicality beats purity? > > Engineer! > > At the time I was in college I heard topology was very fashionable among > mathematicians. That was because it was one of the last remaining > research topics that didn't yet have an application.
Probably shows more than anything else how siloed university depts are: http://www.amazon.in/Topology-Cambridge-Theoretical-Computer-Science/dp/0521576512 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list