On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se>: > >> In a message of Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:29:28 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa writes: >>>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. >> >> 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. > > So topology, too, is lost.
You remind me of the hipster mathematician cook, who burned himself by calculating pie before it was cool. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
