OT Re: Math-embarrassment results in CS [was: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?]

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:29:28 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>Chris Angelico <rosuav at 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