[cmath] Re: [Cmesg-l] Fwd: Good article for promoting pure math research

[Miroslav Lovric]

Peter,

thank you very much for this 

Some of the stories/case studies I know about, and always talk about them
to my students. Now I know more stories!

Important message -- for students, as well as for teachers, math
curriculum people, etc. -- is that not every piece of math
needs to be (or can be) justified by some (present-day, "real life")
application. 

There is huge value in learning about (and researching) areas of math that 
seem to be "purely abstract/theoretical" or "non applicable."

Cheers
Miroslav



 



On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:34:19 -0400
 Peter Taylor <peter.taylor at queensu.ca> wrote:
> Steve La Rocque brought to my attention a commentary article in Nature which
> came out today celebrating the unanticipated impact of mathematics research.
>  It's great to see such articles in Nature and it's certainly timely for us
> in Canada(!)  At the bottom of the article there is a useful link to the work
> of the British Society for the History of Math in collecting interesting
> stories about applications.
> peter
> 
> The unplanned impact of mathematics
> Nature 475, 166–169 (14 July 2011)
> <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/475166a>doi:10.1038/475166a
> Published online 13 July 2011
> 
> Nature url:
>
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7355/full/475166a.html>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7355/full/475166a.html
> Shortform url: <http://bit.ly/nbsY5B>http://bit.ly/nbsY5B
> 
> 
> 
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