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From: ashby@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: military funding in mathematics
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Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 11:20:00 EDT
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/* Written  7:58 pm  Oct 16, 1986 by wpt@princeton.UUCP in uiucdcsp:net.math *
/* ---------- "military funding in mathematics" ---------- */
  There has been a rapid increase in military funding in mathematics
  recently.  Many mathematicians are disturbed by this trend,
  as unhealthy for the discipline and unhealthy and dangerous
  for society at large.  
/* End of text excerpt from uiucdcsp:net.math */

Why, pray tell, is this trend so "unhealthy and dangerous" for math
and society.  It really irritates me when people make such outrageous
and unsubstantiated claims.  The least you could do is provide *some*
thread of evidence - if such exists.

-Steven Ashby
 Dept. of Computer Science
 Univ. of Illinois