Re: Is pure mathematics worth spending tax money for it?
From: Trevor Malcolm (trevmalc_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/10/04
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:24:30 -0700
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:53:36 -0700, Nobuo Saito wrote:
> I think every ecconomically advanced nation spends money anually,
> if not much, supporting researchers for pure mathematics
> like number theory, algebraic geometry, differential topology,
> etc. I heard arithmetic geometry on elliptic curves
> has an application for cryptology. But I don't know many examples
> which justify spending people's money for pure mathematics.
That's probably because you actually don't know much pure math. Number
theory and algebraic geometry have applications in cryptography among othe
things, and they all (well, those three you mentioned) have applications
in physics (especially differential topology). But seriously, if you have
to ask whether or not pure math has any useful applications, you obviously
don't know enough mathematics.
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