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From: jml@cs.strath.ac.uk (Joseph McLean)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Military funding in maths
Message-ID: <307@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 05:23:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  5 05:23:43 1986
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Reply-To: jml@cs.strath.ac.uk (Joseph McLean)
Organization: Department of Computer Science at Strathclyde University, UK.
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>>Mathematics doesn't win wars

>False

How so ? I seem to recall that the French were soundly defeated in a
little battle at Waterloo.They didn't do particularly well in
Egypt or Russia either.The fact that they had arguably 8 of the 10
best mathematicians of the age didn't do them any good here.
(Although these mathematicians did instigate a revolution in teaching
in France's educational establishments,and abroad by way of textbooks).