On 2015-07-23, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> 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.
You can always pick out the topologist at a conference: he's the one trying to dunk his coffee cup in his doughnut. [Hey, how often do you get to use a topology joke.] -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
