In a message of Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:29:28 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa writes: >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. > > >Marko
I have a very good freind who is a knot-theorist. (Chad Musick, who may have proven something wonderful.) see: http://chadmusick.wikidot.com/knots He says there are lots of applications for this in the field of circuit board layouts. And most mathematicians accept knot-theory as part of topology. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
